@inproceedings{174182b78ddf490fa3199433c79ef3a6,
title = "Planetary sample sealing for caching",
abstract = "A sample sealing technique was developed and tested for a possible Mars Sample Return mission application. The effect on the scientific viability of biological samples from storage of samples in a sample container for a long period of time on the Martian surface was also investigated. Sealing techniques were investigated and a soldering concept was developed and tested to provide a hermetic seal between a sample tube and cap. A sample caching subsystem design concept was updated to allow for sealing of sample tubes. A gas-tight vessel was constructed that could be used to simulate environmental conditions that would be experienced by a sample of regolith on Mars and to test the affects of thermal cycling of the vessel on psychrophilic microorganisms embedded in a regolith simulant to assess the degree of deterioration of the microorganisms.",
author = "Paul Backes and Onstott, {Tullis C.} and Yoseph Bar-Cohen and Mircea Badescu and Lisa Pratt and Daniel Helmick and Stewart Sherrit and Adam Johnson and Xiaoqi Bao",
year = "2009",
doi = "10.1109/AERO.2009.4839307",
language = "English (US)",
isbn = "9781424426225",
series = "IEEE Aerospace Conference Proceedings",
booktitle = "2009 IEEE Aerospace Conference",
note = "2009 IEEE Aerospace Conference ; Conference date: 07-03-2009 Through 14-03-2009",
}