Report: Low-Cost Science Mission Concepts for Mars Exploration (NASA 2022)

This article provides a synopsis of the final report of NASA’s Low-Cost Science Mission Concepts for Mars Exploration Workshop, held on March 29-31, 2022, in Pasadena, California. The workshop aimed to explore new approaches to Mars exploration using low-cost missions, leveraging emerging small-spacecraft capabilities and innovative mission concepts to achieve compelling scientific discoveries at Mars at unprecedented low costs.

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Mapping Earth’s Ever-Changing Magnetic Field: How ESA’s Swarm Mission Helps Improve the World Magnetic Model

The Swarm mission was launched by ESA in 2013 to study and precisely map variations in Earth’s magnetic field over space and time. The constellation consists of three identical satellites carrying sophisticated magnetometers and electric field instruments. Swarm provides multi-point measurements of the magnetic signals from the magnetosphere, ionosphere, lithosphere and the core.

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