Emerging Capabilities for Mars Exploration

Abstract

Field testing of the AxelTethered Rover Artist concept of the Ingenuity Helicopter demo on Mars 2020 VALKYRIE subsurface mission concept WATSON Deep Drill under test in Greenland Artist concept of the MSR Mars Ascent Vehicle launch Onboard rover terrain classification for safe and energy-aware path planning

Advancing the Scientific Frontier with Increasingly Autonomous Systems

“…Also, Intrepid operations that have to cover an 1,800 km distance with hundreds of instrument placements in four years, where manual interventions cannot occur more than once every 6-16 km of traverse, or missions seeking to access extreme surface or subsurface terrains. [23,24,25,26])…”