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Communications for the Planet Mars: past, present, and future

dc.contributor.departmentDepartment of Electrical and Electronics Engineering
dc.contributor.departmentGraduate School of Sciences and Engineering
dc.contributor.kuauthorBaşar, Ertuğrul
dc.contributor.kuauthorKöktaş, Enes
dc.contributor.schoolcollegeinstituteCollege of Engineering
dc.contributor.schoolcollegeinstituteGRADUATE SCHOOL OF SCIENCES AND ENGINEERING
dc.date.accessioned2025-03-06T20:58:31Z
dc.date.issued2024
dc.description.abstractSpace exploration has been on the rise since the 1960s and Mars plays a significant role in the history of space exploration. As the amount of data collected from science instruments around and on Mars increased, the need for fast and reliable communication between Earth and space probes has emerged. However, communicating over deep space has always been a big challenge due to the propagation characteristics of radio waves. Nowadays, the collaboration of private companies like SpaceX with space agencies to make Mars colonization a reality, introduces even more challenges, such as providing high data rate, low-latency, energy-efficient, and mobility-resistant communication infrastructures in the Martian environment. Propagation medium and wireless channel characteristics of Mars should be extensively studied to achieve these goals. This survey article presents a comprehensive overview of the Mars missions and channel modeling studies of the near-Earth, interstellar, and near-planet links. Studies featuring three-dimensional (3D) channel modeling simulations on the Martian surface are reviewed. Novel computer simulations considering various scenarios based on realistic 3D Martian terrains using the Wireless Insite software are presented. Path loss exponent, power delay profile, and root-mean-square delay spread for these scenarios are calculated and tabularized in this study.
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dc.description.indexedbyScopus
dc.description.publisherscopeInternational
dc.description.sponsoredbyTubitakEuN/A
dc.identifier.doi10.1109/MAES.2024.3396117
dc.identifier.eissn1557-959X
dc.identifier.issn0885-8985
dc.identifier.issue9
dc.identifier.quartileQ1
dc.identifier.scopus2-s2.0-85192750436
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1109/MAES.2024.3396117
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14288/27478
dc.identifier.volume39
dc.identifier.wos1317091500003
dc.keywordsMars
dc.keywordsSpace vehicles
dc.keywordsAntennas
dc.keywordsPlanetary orbits
dc.keywordsDeep-space communications
dc.keywordsTerrestrial atmosphere
dc.keywordsSpace exploration
dc.keywordsSpace communications
dc.keywordsCommunication systems
dc.keywordsChannel modeling
dc.keywordsDeep space
dc.keywordsMartian atmosphere
dc.keywordsOptical communication
dc.keywordsOrbiter
dc.keywordsPath loss exponent
dc.keywordsPower delay profile
dc.keywordsRadio propagation
dc.keywordsRay-tracing
dc.keywordsRoot-mean-square delay spread
dc.keywordsRover
dc.keywordsWireless communication
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
dc.relation.ispartofIEEE AEROSPACE AND ELECTRONIC SYSTEMS MAGAZINE
dc.subjectEngineering
dc.subjectAerospace
dc.titleCommunications for the Planet Mars: past, present, and future
dc.typeJournal Article
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