{"product_id":"9789402421811","title":"The NASA Mars 2020 Mission : Seeking Signs of Ancient Life and Preparing for Sample Return","description":"\u003cp\u003eNASA's Mars 2020 mission successfully landed the Perseverance rover in Jezero crater on February 18, 2021.This book provides the definitive pre-landing documentation of the Mars 2020 mission, its scientific payload elements, and its exploration area.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe chapters in this volume include detailed descriptions of:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe Perseverance mission, and its relationship to a possible Mars Sample Return campaign;\n\u003cbr\u003eThe geology of the mission's exploration environment in Jezero crater; and\n\u003cbr\u003eThe purpose, design and operation of all seven instruments aboard the rover (Mastcam-Z, SHERLOC, RIMFAX,  Supercam, MOXIE, PIXL, and MEDA) as well as the engineering cameras and the Mars helicopter Ingenuity.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e NASA's ambitious Mars 2020 mission extends a long arc of Martian exploration by seeking evidence that life may once have existed on Mars, and by preparing a collection of samples forpossible return to Earth by a future mission. Mars 2020 will also enable future exploration by characterizing modern weather conditions and by demonstrating new technologies.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003ePreviously published in Space Science Reviews in the Topical Collection \"The Mars 2020 Mission\"\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Springer","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48845814825195,"sku":"00000_00000_00000_00000","price":604.27,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/kinokuniya.com.sg\/products\/9789402421811","provider":"Books Kinokuniya Singapore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}