Mars 2005 Sample Return Workshop : held at NASA Ames Research Center, March 25-27, 1996

Introduction......Page 3
Program......Page 4
Contents......Page 7
Review of Mars Surveyor Program......Page 13
Planetary Protection and Mars Sample Return......Page 15
Human Exploration and Development of Space and the Mars Sample Return Mission......Page 18
Atmospheric Samples......Page 23
An Exobiological Strategy for Mars Exploration......Page 27
Optimization of 2005 Sample Return for Mars Exopaleontology......Page 32
Detection of Amino Acids on Mars......Page 38
Searching for Biogeochemical Cycles on Mars......Page 42
Sample Return and Climate......Page 46
The Status of Mars Climate Change Modeling......Page 55
Science Goals for a Returned Sample of the Martian Atmosphere......Page 62
Sample Return and Climate: Igneous Rocks and Impact Breccias......Page 65
Martian Volatiles and Isotopic Signatures......Page 69
What the SNC Meteorite Tells Us about Mars......Page 76
Mars Sample Return: Goals for Geology......Page 81
The Surface Materials of Mars......Page 85
A Conservative Strategy for Geologic Sampling and Resource Utilization on Mars......Page 90
Mars Sample Return Program......Page 95
List of Invited Participants......Page 98