Sample Return Missions
The Last Frontier of Solar System Exploration
- 1st Edition - May 10, 2021
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Editor: Andrea Longobardo
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 1 8 3 3 0 - 4
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 1 8 3 3 1 - 1
Sample Return Missions: The Last Frontier of Solar System Exploration examines the discoveries and results obtained from sample return missions of the past, present, and future. I… Read more
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Request a sales quoteSample Return Missions: The Last Frontier of Solar System Exploration examines the discoveries and results obtained from sample return missions of the past, present, and future. It analyses the results in the context of the current state of knowledge and their relation to the formation and evolution of planetary bodies, as well as to the available technologies and techniques. It provides detailed descriptions of experimental procedures applied to returned samples.
Beginning with an overview of previous missions, Sample Return Missions then goes on to provide an overview of facilities throughout the world used to analyze the returned samples. Finally, it addresses techniques for collection, transport, and analysis of the samples, with an additional focus on lessons learned and future perspectives. Providing an in-depth examination of a variety of missions, with both scientific and engineering implications, this book is an important resource for the planetary science community, as well as the experimentalist and engineering communities.
- Presents sample return results obtained so far in relation to remote sensing measurements, methods and techniques for laboratory analysis, and technology
- Provides an overview of a variety of sample return missions, from Apollo, to Hayabusa-2, to future missions
- Examines technological and methodological advances in analyzing returned samples, as well as the resources available globally
Planetary scientists as well as experimentalists, materials scientists, and engineers working with the planetary community
- Cover Image
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Table of Contents
- Contributors
- Chapter 1 Introduction
- Part I Space missions
- Chapter 2 The Apollo program
- Chapter Outlines
- Abstract
- 2.1 Introduction
- 2.2 Early planning and strategies
- 2.3 Experiments not related to geologic sampling
- 2.4 Tools & photography
- 2.5 The Apollo samples
- 2.6 Transport & storage
- 2.7 Curation
- 2.8 Major findings
- 2.9 Future lunar sampling
- References
- Chapter 3 The Luna program
- Chapter Outlines
- Abstract
- 3.1 The beginning
- 3.2 “The Dark Side of the Moon”
- 3.3 First lunar surface panoramas
- 3.4 The first gamma-survey of the lunar surface
- 3.5 Lunokhod
- 3.6 Lunar samples return
- 3.7 Ground-based receiving complex for lunar soil
- 3.8 Primary processing of the lunar soil and major results
- 3.9 International exchange of lunar soil samples
- 3.10 Conclusions
- Acknowledgments
- References
- Chapter 4 The Stardust sample return mission
- Chapter Outlines
- Abstract
- 4.1 Introduction
- 4.2 Mission overview
- 4.3 Results
- 4.4 Conclusions
- 4.5 Acknowledgements
- References
- Chapter 5 The Genesis Solar-Wind Mission: first deep-space robotic mission to return to earth
- Chapter Outlines
- Abstract
- 5.1 Introduction and purpose of the Genesis mission
- 5.2 Mission and spacecraft design
- 5.3 Mission, re-entry, and recovery
- 5.4 Results and scientific discoveries
- 5.5 Conclusions
- 5.6 Acknowledgements
- 5.7 Permissions
- References
- Chapter 6 The Hayabusa mission
- Chapter Outlines
- Abstract
- 6.1 Introduction
- 6.2 Spacecraft and operations
- 6.3 Scientific results: in-situ observations
- 6.4 Scientific results: sample analysis
- 6.5 Final remark
- 6.6 Acknowledgments
- References
- Chapter 7 The Hayabusa2 mission: what will we expect from samples from C-type near-Earth asteroid (162173) Ryugu?
- Chapter Outlines
- Abstract
- 7.1 Introduction
- 7.2 What did Hayabusa2 find at Ryugu?
- 7.3 Sample acquisition at Ryugu
- 7.4 Science goals of returned sample analysis
- 7.5 Summary
- 7.6 Acknowledgement
- References
- Chapter 8 OSIRIS-REx at Bennu: Overcoming challenges to collect a sample of the early Solar System
- Chapter Outlines
- Abstract
- 8.1 Introduction
- 8.2 Mission operations
- 8.3 Sample acquisition and a look forward to Earth return
- 8.4 Summary: To Bennu and back
- References
- Chapter 9 The Chang'e-5 mission
- Chapter Outlines
- Abstract
- 9.1 Mission overview
- 9.2 Sampling and science operations
- 9.3 Landing, recovery and transport procedures
- 9.4 Sample storage and analysis
- 9.5 Conclusions
- References
- Chapter 10 Future missions
- Chapter Outlines
- Abstract
- 10.1 The JAXA Martian Moons eXploration mission
- 10.2 JAXA/OKEANOS
- 10.3 The NASA Comet Astrobiology Exploration Sample Return
- References
- Part II Facilities
- Chapter 11 The NASA's Johnson Space Center Astromaterials facilities
- Chapter Outlines
- Abstract
- 11.1 Introduction
- 11.2 Principles of astromaterials curation
- 11.3 Current astromaterials collections and laboratories
- 11.4 Emerging collections
- 11.5 Conclusions and future perspectives
- 11.6 Acknowledgements
- References
- Chapter 12 The JAXA Planetary Material Sample Curation Facility
- Chapter Outlines
- Abstract
- 12.1 Introduction
- 12.2 Scientific requirements of the JAXA's Curation Center
- 12.3 Role of the Curation Center
- 12.4 Curation Center facility design
- 12.5 Clean room specifications
- 12.6 Clean chamber specifications
- 12.7 Operations at Curation Center
- 12.8 Current status of Hayabusa samples
- 12.9 New challenges and preparation for Hayabusa2
- 12.10 Conclusion
- References
- Chapter 13 A roadmap for a European extraterrestrial sample curation facility – the EURO─CARES project
- Chapter Outlines
- Abstract
- 13.1 Requirements for a European facility
- 13.2 The EURO-CARES project
- 13.3 Summary and key recommendations
- 13.4 Acknowledgements
- References
- Part III Techniques and technologies
- Chapter 14 Collection of samples
- Chapter Outlines
- Abstract
- 14.1 Introduction
- 14.2 Asteroid sampling systems
- 14.3 Cometary material sampling systems
- 14.4 Sampling dust in space and in the upper Earth stratosphere
- 14.5 The future: planetary sampling systems
- 14.6 Conclusions
- References
- Chapter 15 Recovery and transport of samples
- Chapter Outlines
- Abstract
- 15.1 Introduction
- 15.2 Landing sites
- 15.3 Transport of samples in previous missions
- 15.4 Guidelines and regulatory issues for restricted samples packaging
- 15.5 Conclusions and future perspectives
- 15.6 Acknowledgements
- References
- Chapter 16 Techniques and instruments to analyze, characterize and study returned samples
- Chapter Outlines
- Abstract
- 16.1 Introduction: historical background
- 16.2 General presentation of the analytical techniques
- 16.3 Photon-based analytical techniques
- 16.4 Electron-based analytical techniques
- 16.5 Ion-based analytical techniques
- 16.6 Others
- 16.7 Complementary techniques in a multi-analytical sequence
- 16.8 Perspectives
- Acknowledgements
- References
- Chapter 17 Preservation of samples
- Chapter Outlines
- Abstract
- 17.1 Planetary Protection
- 17.2 Sample curation facilities
- 17.3 Technologies for samples preservation in unrestricted and restricted missions
- 17.4 Conclusions
- References
- Part IV The future
- Chapter 18 Lessons learned and future perspectives
- Abstract
- Index
- Edition: 1
- Published: May 10, 2021
- Imprint: Elsevier
- No. of pages: 396
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN: 9780128183304
- eBook ISBN: 9780128183311
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Andrea Longobardo
Andrea Longobardo is a Contract Researcher at National Institute of Astrophysics (Italy). He has been deeply involved in planetary mission on minor bodies as Associated Scientist of VIR/Dawn, VIRTIS/Rosetta and GIADA/Rosetta instrument. He was Task Leader in the H2020 EURO-CARES project, dedicated to developing a roadmap for a European Sample Curation Facility. He participated to the ESA mission study MarcoPolo-R (sample return from asteroid) as Deputy PI of the VISTA instrument. He convened the Sample Return sessions at European Planetary Science Congress in 2017 and 2018.
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