Deep Space Gateway Concept Science Workshop : February 27–March 1, 2018, Denver, Colorado

The purpose of this workshop is to discuss what science could be leveraged from a deep space gateway, as well as first-order determination of what instruments are required to acquire the scientific data.Institutional Support, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Lunar and Planetary Institute, Universities Space Research Association ; Executive Committee, Ben Bussey, HEOMD Chief Scientist, NASA Headquarters, Jim Garvin, Goddard Space Flight Center Chief Scientist, Michael New, NASA Headquarters, Deputy AA for Research, SMD, Paul Niles, Executive Secretary, NASA Johnson Space Center, Jim Spann, MSFC Chief Scientist, Eileen Stansbery, Johnson Space CenterPARTIAL CONTENTS: Deep Space Gateway as a Deployment Staging Platform and Communication Hub of Lunar Heat Flow Experiment--Lunar Seismology Enabled by a Deep Space Gateway--In-Situ Measurements of Electrostatic Dust Transport on the Lunar Surface--Science Investigations Enabled by Magnetic Field Measurements on the Lunar Surface--Enhancing Return from Lunar Surface Missions via the Deep Space Gateway--Deep Space Gateway Support of Lunar Surface Ops and Tele-Operational Transfer of Surface Assets to the Next Landing Site--Development of a Lunar Surface Architecture Using the Deep Space Gateway--The Deep Space Gateway: The Next Stepping Stone to Mar

Workshop on Dust in Planetary Systems : September 26-30, 2005, Kaua‘i, Hawai‘i

Reviews the state of interplanetary dust research since the meeting held in Canterbury in 2000.Sponsored by: National Aeronautics and Space Administration, European Space Agency, Lunar and Planetary Institute, Hawai‘i Institute of Geophysics and Planetology, University of Hawai‘i at ManoaConveners: Donald E. Brownlee, University of Washington, Seattle Eberhard Grün, Max-Planck-Institute for Nuclear Physics and University of Hawai‘i at Manoa ; Scientific Organizing Committee: Jack Baggaley, University of Canterbury [and 11 others]PARTIAL CONTENTS: Galileo In-Situ Dust Measurements in Jupiter’s Gossamer Rings / H. Krüger, R. Moissl, D. P. Hamilton, and E. Grün--Cassini RPWS Observations of Dust Impacts in Saturn’s E-ring / W. S. Kurth, T. F. Averkamp, D. A. Gurnett, and Z. Z. Wang--Hydrogen Isotopic Fractionation and the Role of Dust During Sublimation from Cometary Ice / D. S. Lauretta, R. H. Brown, B. Schmidt, and J. Moores--Approaching Interplanetary Dust Physical Properties, from Light Scattering and Thermal Observations and Simulations / A. C. Levasseur-Regourd and J. Lasue--Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon Molecules in Protoplanetary and Debris Disks / A. Li--Characterizing the Near-Earth Cosmic Dust and Orbital Debris Environment with LAD-C / J.-C. Liou, F. Giovane, R. Corsaro, P. Tsou, and E. Stansbery--Deep Impact and Comet 9P/Tempel 1: From Evolved Surface to Interior Primeval Dust / C. M. Lisse--New Observations of the Kinematics of the Zodiacal Dust Cloud / G. J. Madsen, R. J. Reynolds, S. I. Ipatov, A. S. Kutyrev, J. C. Mather, and S. H. Moseley--Dynamics of the Dust Grains in the Saturn’s Rings / E. Martínez-Gómez, H. Durand-Manterola, and H. Pérez de Tejada--Adventures in Gravitational Focusing / M. J. Matney

Technology of Mounting the Large-Size Equipment on the Outer Surface of the ISS RS as Exemplified by the ICARUS Equipment

ICARUS scientific equipment was created for a space experiment to study moving of animals and birds. Two Progress vehicles delivered the hardware to the ISS RS. The features of the hardware preparation in the pressurized volume of the docking compartment (DC1) prior to the extravehicular activity (EVA) are described. The sequence of crew actions during the EVA is given. There is a description of the pre-flight crew training on ICARUS equipment assembling.</jats:p

Evolution of Martian volatiles

Topics covered include: early Mars volatile inventory, evolution through time, geological influences, present atmospheric properties, soils, exobiology, polar volatiles, and seasonal and diurnal cycles.sponsored by Lunar and Planetary Institute.edited by B. Jakosky and A. Treima

The Habitable Exoplanet Observatory (HabEx) Mission Concept Study Final Report

The Habitable Exoplanet Observatory, or HabEx, has been designed to be the Great Observatory of the 2030s. For the first time in human history, technologies have matured sufficiently to enable an affordable space-based telescope mission capable of discovering and characterizing Earthlike planets orbiting nearby bright sunlike stars in order to search for signs of habitability and biosignatures. Such a mission can also be equipped with instrumentation that will enable broad and exciting general astrophysics and planetary science not possible from current or planned facilities. HabEx is a space telescope with unique imaging and multi-object spectroscopic capabilities at wavelengths ranging from ultraviolet (UV) to near-IR. These capabilities allow for a broad suite of compelling science that cuts across the entire NASA astrophysics portfolio. HabEx has three primary science goals: (1) Seek out nearby worlds and explore their habitability; (2) Map out nearby planetary systems and understand the diversity of the worlds they contain; (3) Enable new explorations of astrophysical systems from our own solar system to external galaxies by extending our reach in the UV through near-IR. This Great Observatory science will be selected through a competed GO program, and will account for about 50% of the HabEx primary mission. The preferred HabEx architecture is a 4m, monolithic, off-axis telescope that is diffraction-limited at 0.4 microns and is in an L2 orbit. HabEx employs two starlight suppression systems: a coronagraph and a starshade, each with their own dedicated instrument

The Habitable Exoplanet Observatory (HabEx) Mission Concept Study Final Report

The Habitable Exoplanet Observatory, or HabEx, has been designed to be the Great Observatory of the 2030s. For the first time in human history, technologies have matured sufficiently to enable an affordable space-based telescope mission capable of discovering and characterizing Earthlike planets orbiting nearby bright sunlike stars in order to search for signs of habitability and biosignatures. Such a mission can also be equipped with instrumentation that will enable broad and exciting general astrophysics and planetary science not possible from current or planned facilities. HabEx is a space telescope with unique imaging and multi-object spectroscopic capabilities at wavelengths ranging from ultraviolet (UV) to near-IR. These capabilities allow for a broad suite of compelling science that cuts across the entire NASA astrophysics portfolio. HabEx has three primary science goals: (1) Seek out nearby worlds and explore their habitability; (2) Map out nearby planetary systems and understand the diversity of the worlds they contain; (3) Enable new explorations of astrophysical systems from our own solar system to external galaxies by extending our reach in the UV through near-IR. This Great Observatory science will be selected through a competed GO program, and will account for about 50% of the HabEx primary mission. The preferred HabEx architecture is a 4m, monolithic, off-axis telescope that is diffraction-limited at 0.4 microns and is in an L2 orbit. HabEx employs two starlight suppression systems: a coronagraph and a starshade, each with their own dedicated instrument.Comment: Full report: 498 pages. Executive Summary: 14 pages. More information about HabEx can be found here: https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/habex

LSST Science Book, Version 2.0

A survey that can cover the sky in optical bands over wide fields to faint magnitudes with a fast cadence will enable many of the exciting science opportunities of the next decade. The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) will have an effective aperture of 6.7 meters and an imaging camera with field of view of 9.6 deg^2, and will be devoted to a ten-year imaging survey over 20,000 deg^2 south of +15 deg. Each pointing will be imaged 2000 times with fifteen second exposures in six broad bands from 0.35 to 1.1 microns, to a total point-source depth of r~27.5. The LSST Science Book describes the basic parameters of the LSST hardware, software, and observing plans. The book discusses educational and outreach opportunities, then goes on to describe a broad range of science that LSST will revolutionize: mapping the inner and outer Solar System, stellar populations in the Milky Way and nearby galaxies, the structure of the Milky Way disk and halo and other objects in the Local Volume, transient and variable objects both at low and high redshift, and the properties of normal and active galaxies at low and high redshift. It then turns to far-field cosmological topics, exploring properties of supernovae to z~1, strong and weak lensing, the large-scale distribution of galaxies and baryon oscillations, and how these different probes may be combined to constrain cosmological models and the physics of dark energy.Comment: 596 pages. Also available at full resolution at http://www.lsst.org/lsst/sciboo

Concepts and Approaches for Mars Exploration

Abstracts describe missions, mission elements or experiments for consideration in the 2005-2020 time frame. Also the technologies and the support necessary to achieve the results are discussed.NASA Headquarters; Lunar and Planetary Institutehosted by Lunar and Planetary Institute ; sponsored by NASA Headquarters, Lunar and Planetary Institute ; convener Scott Hubbard