Mars Sample Return: The Time is Now (A Big Idea Whose Time Has Come)


Michael A Meyer1, Sanjay Vijendran2, David W Beaty3, Charles D Edwards3, Brandi L Carrier4, Harry Y McSween Jr5, Monica Grady6 and Elliot Sefton-Nash7, (1)NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC, United States, (2)European Space Research and Technology Centre, Noordwijk Zh, Netherlands, (3)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (4)Jet Propulsion Laboratory/California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States, (5)University of Tennessee, Earth & Planetary Sciences, Knoxville, TN, United States, (6)Open University, Milton Keynes, MK7, United Kingdom, (7)European Space Agency, ESTEC, Noordwijk, Netherlands