Mars Prospective Energy and Material Resources /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Badescu, Viorel. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2009.
• Subjects: Engineering.; Planetology.; Astrophysics.; Astronautics.; Electric engineering.; Energy Technology.; Extraterrestrial Physics, Space Sciences.; Aerospace Technology and Astronautics.; Astronomy, Observations and Techniques.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-03629-3

The manned mission is seen as a first step towards a Mars surface exploration base-station and, later, establishing permanent settlement. The location and use of Marss natural resources is vital to enable cost-effective long-duration human exploration and exploitation missions as well as subsequent...

Table of Contents:

• From the contents Power System Options for Mars Surface Exploration: Past, Present and Future
• Available Solar Energy and Weather Forecasting on Mars
• Weather influence on PV solar cells operation on
• Electric Power Generation on Mars using Photovoltaic Helium Balloons
• Weather influence on solar thermal power plants operation on
• Fuel cell power system options for Mars surface mission elements
• The evolution of nuclear power generation for Mars
• Distributed Power Sources for Mars
• Advanced nuclear compact structures for power generation on Mars
• New Solutions for Nuclear Energy and Flights on Mars
• Geothermal energy on Mars
• Comparative Analysis of Power System Architectures: The Case of Human Mars Surface Missions.-Economics of Energy on Mars
• Tumbleweed: A New Paradigm for Surveying the Surface of Mars for In-situ Resources
• Drilling and excavation for construction and in situ resource utilization
• In situ utilization of indigenous resources.