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| A pre-landing assessment of regolith properties at the InSight landing site P Morgan, M Grott, B Knapmeyer-Endrun, M Golombek, P Delage, ... Space Science Reviews 214, 1-47, 2018 | 73 | 2018 |
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| A rover for the JAXA MMX Mission to Phobos S Ulamec, P Michel, M Grott, U Böttger, HW Hübers, N Murdoch, ... 70th International Astronautical Congress, IAC 2019, IAC-19, 2019 | 40 | 2019 |
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| The InSight-HP3 mole on Mars: Lessons learned from attempts to penetrate to depth in the Martian soil T Spohn, TL Hudson, L Witte, T Wippermann, L Wisniewski, B Kedziora, ... Advances in Space Research 69 (8), 3140-3163, 2022 | 38 | 2022 |
| Evidence for depletion of heavy silicon isotopes at comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko M Rubin, K Altwegg, H Balsiger, JJ Berthelier, A Bieler, U Calmonte, ... Astronomy & Astrophysics 601, A123, 2017 | 38 | 2017 |
| Hammering beneath the surface of Mars–Modeling and simulation of the impact-driven locomotion of the HP3-Mole by coupling enhanced multi-body dynamics and discrete element method R Lichtenheldt, B Schäfer, O Krömer | 37 | 2014 |
| Design details of the HP3 mole onboard the InSight mission K Olaf, S Marco, M Fittock, T Georgios, W Torben, W Lars, G Matthias, ... Acta Astronautica 164, 152-167, 2019 | 27 | 2019 |
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| Locomotion on soft granular soils: A discrete element based approach for simulations in planetary exploration R Lichtenheldt, B Schäfer | 24 | 2013 |
| Capabilities of Gossamer-1 derived small spacecraft solar sails carrying Mascot-derived nanolanders for in-situ surveying of NEAs JT Grundmann, W Bauer, J Biele, R Boden, M Ceriotti, F Cordero, ... Acta Astronautica 156, 330-362, 2019 | 22 | 2019 |
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