The DREAMS experiment on the ExoMars 2016 mission for the study of Martian environment during the dust storm season

C. Bettanini (1) , F. Esposito (2) , Stefano Debei (1) , C. Molfese (2) , I. Arruego Rodriguez (3) , G. Colombatti (1) , A.M. Harri (4) , Franck Montmessin (5) , C. Wilson (6) , A. Aboudan (1) , Sadok Abbaki (7) , V. Apestigue (3) , G. Bellucci (8) , Jean-Jacques Berthelier (5) , J.R. Brucato (9) , S.B. Calcutt (6) , F. Cortecchia (2) , G. Di Achille (2) , F. Ferri (1) , François Forget (10) , Gian Paolo Guizzo (1) , E. Frisco (1) , M. Genzer (4) , Pierre Gilbert (7) , H. Haukka (4) , J. J. Jimenez (3) , S. Jimenez (11) , J-L. Josset (12) , O. Karatekin (13) , G. Landis (14) , R. Lorenz (15) , J. Martinez (12) , L. Marthy (2) , V. Mennela (2) , D. Möhlmann (16) , David Moirin (7) , R. Molinaro (2) , E. Palomba (8) , M. Patell (8) , Jean-Pierre Pommereau (5) , C. I. Popa (2) , S. Rafkin (17) , Pascal Rannou (18) , N. O. Renno (19) , P. Schipani (2) , W. Schmidt (4) , S. Silvestro (2) , Fernando Simões (20) , A. Spiga (10) , F. Valero (11) , L. Vazquez (11) , Francis Vivat (7) , O. Witasse (21) , R. Mugnuolo (22) , S. Pirrotta (22) , E. Marchetti (22)

1 CISAS - Centro di Ateneo di Studi e Attività Spaziali “Giuseppe Colombo”
2 OAC - INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Capodimonte
3 INTA - Instituto Nacional de Técnica Aeroespacial
4 FMI - Finnish Meteorological Institute
5 PLANETO - LATMOS
6 University of Oxford
7 LATMOS - Laboratoire Atmosphères, Milieux, Observations Spatiales
8 IAPS - Istituto di Astrofisica e Planetologia Spaziali - INAF
9 OAA - INAF - Osservatorio Astrofisico di Arcetri
10 LMD - Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique (UMR 8539)
11 UCM - Universidad Complutense de Madrid = Complutense University of Madrid [Madrid]
12 SPACE - X - Space Exploration Institute [Neuchâtel]
13 ROB - Royal Observatory of Belgium = Observatoire Royal de Belgique
14 NASA Glenn Research Center
15 University of Arizona
16 DLR Institut für Planetenforschung
17 Department of Space Studies [Boulder]
18 GSMA - Groupe de spectrométrie moléculaire et atmosphérique
19 University of Michigan [Ann Arbor]
20 GSFC - NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
21 ESTEC - European Space Research and Technology Centre
22 ASI - Agenzia Spaziale Italiana

The ExoMars programme, which is carried out by European Space Agency (ESA) in cooperation with the Russian federal Space Agency (Roscosmos), foresees a two-steps mission to Mars. The first mission consists of an orbiter and an Entry Descent and Landing Demonstrator Module (EDM) to be launched in January 2016 and is scheduled to land on the planet during the statistical dust storm season; the second mission includes a descent module, a surface platform and a rover and will be launched in 2018. The DREAMS (Dust characterization, Risk assessment and Environment Analyser on the Martian Surface) experiment for ExoMars 2016 is an autonomous meteorological station designed to study the effect of dust on Martian environment which will operate for two Martian days (sols) relying on its own power supply after landing. DREAMS includes a suite of sensors able to analyse temperature, pressure, humidity, wind speed and direction and solar irradiance as well as an electric field probe which will perform the first electrical characterization of Mars surface atmosphere.

Mots clés: meteorological measurements; atmospheric electric phenomena; ExoMars; Mars dust storm; autonomous instrument

Domaines: Planétologie et astrophysique de la terre [astro-ph.EP]

C. Bettanini, F. Esposito, Stefano Debei, C. Molfese, I. Arruego Rodriguez, et al.. The DREAMS experiment on the ExoMars 2016 mission for the study of Martian environment during the dust storm season. 2014 IEEE International Workshop on Metrology for Aerospace (MetroAeroSpace), May 2014, Benevento, Italy. pp.167-173. ⟨hal-01104037⟩