Deployment Schemes of Wireless Sensor Node For In-Situ Measurement of Planetary Surface Mars

Abstract

To extant the life on Mars, there are investigations assessing the past habitability potential. The evidence of the presence of water on the Mars identified by the detection of some minerals such as hematite and goethite. To study the properties of regolith for planetary surface for in situ measurement, it is necessary to deploy wireless sensor network on MARS surface. There is a challenging task to deploy the sensors on a planet like the MARS and it requires theoretical Perception before applying along any space mission, as it includes large amount of investment. In this paper, we have learned theoretical details involved in the deployment of sensors on the MARS. In this paper, we propose different sensor node deployment strategies for WSN for maximum coverage prediction. Our study also gives sensor fall time, Impact velocity, Number of sensors are used in topology, total pressure, coverage area, etc. Three schemes of deployment topologies have been also compared.