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Die Mineralogie, Mikrostruktur und Bildungsprozesse von Böden auf dem Mars

Fachliche Zuordnung Mineralogie, Petrologie und Geochemie
Bodenwissenschaften
Förderung Förderung von 2012 bis 2018
Projektkennung Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Projektnummer 224836998
 
Erstellungsjahr 2017

Zusammenfassung der Projektergebnisse

In Nov. 2011 the applicant was selected by NASA to become a Participating Scientist & Co-I on the MSL rover mission. However, due to extremely dusty environment in the beginning of the mission the generation of “mineral maps” along the rover traverse (as originally and successfully applied for [to NASA] in 2011) was not possible and it became clear very quickly that this project would have to be continued over many months (and even years) ahead to produce a significant science return. Therefore the applicant’s science focus moved to project #1: Spatial scale determined for images that have been acquired by the rover cameras and to project #2: distribution of copper along the rover traverse (as based on LIBS spectra, Laser-Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy). Both projects have been pursued by the applicant for several years and dominate the applicant’s current profile in the NASA MSL Science Team. Moreover, both projects are promising topics for further investigations and for participation in the next large NASA mission to Mars (the NASA-2020 rover). Project #1 is basically finished and the related internet resource (called ASIC, Approximate Scale for Images acquired by the Curiosity Rover) will be opened up to the MSL Science Team during next Science Team Meeting (Pasadena, Jan 30, 2018). Project #2 is unfinished, although proceeding continuously.

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