Publisher:Pasadena, CA: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 2018
Citation:2018 IEEE Aerospace Conference, Big Sky, Montana, March 3-10, 2018
Abstract:
This paper presents work done by the Mars 2020
Mission Planning Team to characterize landing site thermal
environments. A process was developed to take in ground
temperature simulation data for each landing site and efficiently
discretize it into a handful of thermal bin environments. The
Mars 2020 Thermal Team then performed detailed heater and
energy modeling in each of those environments. The heater
modeling results were implemented into a Monte Carlo based
surface mission model to understand mission performance impacts.
The Mars 2020 Instrument Teams used the results to
inform their design and to better understand how the thermal
conditions at each landing site affected their instruments.