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Sep 2026
Probing Subsurface Properties With Mission Hardware: Lessons Learned From Artificial Impacts of Mars 2020
Hardware released during spacecraft entry can generate hypervelocity impacts that provide unique constraints on planetary subsurface properties. During NASA's Perseverance descent, two tungsten cruise ballast mass devices (CBMD) and fragments of the cruise stage formed meter‐scale craters north‐west of Jezero crater, i...
A. Sokołowska, I. Daubar, G. S. Collins et al.
· Geophysical Research Letters · 0 citations