Mimicking Mars: A vacuum simulation chamber for testing environmental instrumentation for Mars exploration

Sobrado, J. M.; Martín Soler, J.; Martín Gago, J. A.

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Mimicking Mars: A vacuum simulation chamber for testing environmental instrumentation for Mars exploration

dc.contributor.author	Sobrado, J. M.	es
dc.contributor.author	Martín Soler, J.	es
dc.contributor.author	Martín Gago, J. A.	es
dc.contributor.funder	Instituto Nacional de Técnica Aeroespacial (INTA)	es
dc.contributor.funder	Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad (MINECO)	es
dc.date.accessioned	2024-02-12T13:01:26Z
dc.date.available	2024-02-12T13:01:26Z
dc.date.issued	2014-03-25
dc.description.abstract	We have built a Mars environmental simulation chamber, designed to test new electromechanical devices and instruments that could be used in space missions. We have developed this environmental system aiming at validating the meteorological station Rover Environment Monitoring Station of NASA's Mars Science Laboratory mission currently installed on Curiosity rover. The vacuum chamber has been built following a modular configuration and operates at pressures ranging from 1000 to 10−6 mbars, and it is possible to control the gas composition (the atmosphere) within this pressure range. The device (or sample) under study can be irradiated by an ultraviolet source and its temperature can be controlled in the range from 108 to 423 K. As an important improvement with respect to other simulation chambers, the atmospheric gas into the experimental chamber is cooled at the walls by the use of liquid-nitrogen heat exchangers. This chamber incorporates a dust generation mechanism designed to study Martian-dust deposition while modifying the conditions of temperature, and UV irradiated.	es
dc.description.peerreviewed	Peerreview	es
dc.description.sponsorship	"MARTE Machine has been developed primarily with funds from the national plan of the Secretary of State for Research, Innovation and Development under the Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness, REMS Project Nos. 2007-65862 and AYA2011-25720, also with the internal planetary protection project of the Centro de Astrobiología, by Carlos Briones (2011) as well as the national project of MEC, SOLID (No. AYA2008-04013)"	es
dc.identifier.citation	Review of Scientific Instruments 85(3): 035111(2014)	es
dc.identifier.doi	10.1063/1.4868592
dc.identifier.e-issn	1089-7623
dc.identifier.issn	0034-6748
dc.identifier.other	https://pubs.aip.org/aip/rsi/article-abstract/85/3/035111/380572/Mimicking-Mars-A-vacuum-simulation-chamber-for	es
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12666/935
dc.language.iso	eng	es
dc.publisher	AIP Publishing	es
dc.relation	info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/MICINN/AYA2011-25720	es
dc.relation	info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/MICINN/AYA2008-04013	es
dc.rights.accessRights	info:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccess	es
dc.rights.license	Rights managed by AIP Publishing.	es
dc.subject	Electronic devices	es
dc.subject	Engineering thermodynamics	es
dc.subject	Sample handling	es
dc.subject	Sensors	es
dc.subject	Vacuum systems	es
dc.subject	Electromechanics	es
dc.subject	Space probes	es
dc.subject	Optical sources	es
dc.subject	Chemical elements	es
dc.subject	Polymers	es
dc.title	Mimicking Mars: A vacuum simulation chamber for testing environmental instrumentation for Mars exploration	es
dc.type	info:eu-repo/semantics/article	es
dc.type.coar	http://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_6501	es
dc.type.hasVersion	info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion	es
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