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Drilling and Sample Transfer Mechanisms for Potential Missions to Venus

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Increasingly, NASA is launching missions with in situ exploration objectives that are aimed at planets in the solar system with extreme ambient conditions including very high temperatures.

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Some of the research reported in this manuscript was conducted at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), California Institute of Technology, funded by the NASA Planetary Instrument Definition and Development Program (PIDDP), under a contract with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).

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    Yoseph Bar-Cohen, Xiaoqi Bao, Mircea Badescu, Stewart Sherrit & Hyeong Jae Lee

  2. Honeybee Robotics, Pasadena, CA, USA

    Kris Zacny, Nishant Kumar & Erik Mumm

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Bar-Cohen, Y. et al. (2015). Drilling and Sample Transfer Mechanisms for Potential Missions to Venus. In: Badescu, V., Zacny, K. (eds) Inner Solar System. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-19569-8_8

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