Mark R. Lankton

TL;DR: The MAVEN spacecraft has eight science instruments (with nine sensors) that measure the energy and particle input from the Sun into the Mars upper atmosphere, the response of the upper atmosphere to that input, and the resulting escape of gas to space as mentioned in this paper.

TL;DR: In this article, the internal fabric and localized deformation patterns of triaxial sand specimens were investigated using computed tomography (CT) using three displacement-controlled, conventional, drained axisymmetric (triaxial) experiments were conducted on dry Ottawa sand specimens at very low effective confining stresses (0.05, 0.52, and 1.30 kPa) in a microgravity environment aboard the Space Shuttle during the NASA STS-79 mission.

TL;DR: The Mercury Atmospheric and Surface Composition Spectrometer (MASCS) is one of seven science instruments onboard the MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry, and Ranging (MESSENGER) spacecraft en route to the planet Mercury as mentioned in this paper.

TL;DR: The MErcury, Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry, and Ranging (MESSENGER) mission as discussed by the authors is the first spacecraft to orbit the planet Mercury.

TL;DR: In this paper, six displacement-controlled, conventional, drained axisymmetric triaxial experiments on co-sionless granular soil specimens were conducted at very low effective confining stresses in a SpaceHAB module on the Space Shuttle during the STS-79 and STS89 missions.