Performance characteristics of the PAW instrumentation on Beagle 2 (The astrobiology lander on ESA's Mars express mission)
Proceedings of SPIE the International Society for Optical Engineering 4859 (2002) 32-44
Abstract:
The performance of the PAW instrumentation on the 60kg Beagle 2 lander for ESA's 2003 Mars Express mission will be described. Beagle 2 will search for organic material on and below the surface of Mars in addition to a study of the inorganic chemistry and mineralogy of the landing site. The lander will utilise acquisition and preparation tools to obtain samples from below the surface, and both under and inside rocks. In situ analysis will include examination of samples with an optical microscope, Mossbauer and fluorescent X-ray spectrometers. Extracted samples will be returned to the lander for analysis, in particular a search for organics and a measurement of their isotopic composition. The PAW experiment performance data will be described along with the status of the project.Decay of passive scalars under the action of single scale smooth velocity fields in bounded two-dimensional domains: From non-self-similar probability distribution functions to self-similar eigenmodes
Physical Review E American Physical Society (APS) 66:5 (2002) 056302
The Advection–Diffusion Problem for Stratospheric Flow. Part II: Probability Distribution Function of Tracer Gradients
Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences American Meteorological Society 59:19 (2002) 2830-2845
The hydrologic cycle in deep-time climate problems
Nature Springer Nature 419:6903 (2002) 191-198
Surface quasigeostrophic turbulence: The study of an active scalar
Chaos An Interdisciplinary Journal of Nonlinear Science AIP Publishing 12:2 (2002) 439-450