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Title Assessment of Mars science and mission priorities / Committee on Planetary and Lunar Exploration, Space Studies Board, Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences, National Research Council of the National Academies
Published Washington, D.C. : National Academies Press, ©2003

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 132 pages) : illustrations
Contents FrontMatter -- Preface -- Contents -- Executive Summary -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Interior and Crustal Structure and Activity -- 3 Geochemistry and Petrology -- 4 Stratigraphy and Chronology -- 5 Surface Processes and Geomorphology -- 6 Ground Ice, Groundwater, and Hydrology -- 7 Life, Fossils, and Reduced Carbon -- 8 Lower Atmosphere and Meteorology -- 9 Climate Change -- 10 Upper Atmosphere, Ionosphere, and Solar Wind Interaction -- 11 Rationale for Sample Return -- 12 Assessment of the Mars Exploration Program -- 13 Conclusions -- Appendixes
Appendix A The NASA Mars Exploration ProgramAppendix B Compilation of Recommendations Concerning Mars Exploration Made by COMPLEX and Other Advisory Groups -- Appendix C Acronyms
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Notes Print version record
Subject SCIENCE -- Astronomy.
Planets -- Exploration
SUBJECT Mars (Planet) -- Exploration. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85081553
Mars (Planet) -- Exploration -- Government policy -- United States
Subject Mars (Planet)
United States
Form Electronic book
Author National Research Council (U.S.). Committee on Planetary and Lunar Exploration.
LC no. 2004266618
ISBN 0309508339
9780309508339
1280179805
9781280179808
9786610179800
6610179808