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13 - Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Metallurgy and Materials

University of Surrey

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Article title

Characterisation of martian soil simulants for the ExoMars rover testbed

Type

D - Journal article

DOI

10.1016/j.jterra.2011.10.001

Title of journal

Journal of Terramechanics

Article number

Volume number

Issue number

First page of article

419

ISSN of journal

00224898

Year of publication

2011

URL

Number of additional authors

Additional information

This paper presents a wealth of information on the properties of the Martian soils which was obtained through rigorous experimental testing in an Earth-analogue test facility developed at the University of Surrey. A database which characterizes the properties of soil-simulants was supplied to Astrium Ltd. for soil trafficability assessment and mobility analysis of the ExoMars rover. The data has already been adopted by ESA, and will enable them to predict and enhance the performance of future rovers. Further, these results are now used for the 2M Euro EU FP7 FASTER project to improve the performance of the ExoMars breadboard rover.

Interdisciplinary

Cross-referral requested

Research group

None

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Non-English

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