Arizona State University
Who it subcontracts to
SHADOWCAM " EXPLORING PERMANENT SHADOWS PHASE A
SHADOWCAM: SEEING IN THE DARK
ARTEMIS INFRARED REFLECTANCE AND EMISSION SPECTROMETER (AIRES)
- Busek Co., Inc.$1.7M
LUNAR POLAR HYDROGEN MAPPER
LUNAR POLAR HYDROGEN MAPPER
- Kinetx, LLC$1.3M
LUNAR POLAR HYDROGEN MAPPER - PART 2 (LUNAH-MAP) PHASE E AND F
LUNAR POLAR HYDROGEN MAPPER
- Qwaltec Inc$1.1M
LUNAR POLAR HYDROGEN MAPPER - PART 2 (LUNAH-MAP) PHASE E AND F
LUNAR POLAR HYDROGEN MAPPER
SHADOWCAM: SEEING IN THE DARK
- M.m.a. Design LLC$605K
LUNAR POLAR HYDROGEN MAPPER
LUNAR POLAR HYDROGEN MAPPER
ARTEMIS INFRARED REFLECTANCE AND EMISSION SPECTROMETER (AIRES)
DEVELOPING ROBUST MULTI-DIMENSIONAL ATMOSPHERIC RETRIEVAL METHODS FOR HIGH-RESOLUTION CROSS-CORRELATION SPECTROSCOPY
SULFUR IN THE METALLIC CORES OF SUPER-EARTHS AND ITS IMPACT ON THEIR MAGNETIC FIELDS AND MASS-RADIUS RELATIONS
Who it works for
SUBRECIPIENT SHALL PROVIDE TECHNICAL INFORMATION CONCERNING ANY INVENTION, DISCOVERY, IMPROVEMENT, OR INNOVATION MADE BY SUBRECIPIENT IN THE PERFORMANCE OF WORK UNDER LUNAR-VISE. ANNUAL NEW TECHNOLOGY REPORTS DUE ON 12/31/2023; 12/31/2024; 12/31/2025, 12/31/2026 IN ADDITION, SUBRECIPIENT SHALL SUBMIT "SUBJECT INVENTIONS/REPORTABLE ITEMS INTERIM AND FINAL SUMMARY REPORT" ELECTRONICALLY ON THE NEW TECHNOLOGY REPORTING WEB SITE (ENTRE) LOCATED AT HTTP://INVENTION.NASA.GOV. FINAL INVENTORY REPORT OF FEDERALLY-OWNED PROPERTY DUE ON 11/29/2026 (90 DAYS AFTER PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE END DATE). SUBRECIPIENT SHALL PROVIDE PROJECT-SPECIFIC DELIVERABLES AS DELINEATED IN THE ATTACHED SCOPE OF WORK. AT ASU, INSTRUMENT SCIENTIST HARDGROVE WILL WORK WITH RMD AND AZST TO ENSURE THAT THE LUNAR VISE GRNS INSTRUMENT DESIGN MEETS THE LUNAR VISE MISSION SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING REQUIREMENTS. DR. HARDGROVE WILL OVERSEE THE DEVELOPMENT, QUALIFICATION AND DELIVERY OF THE LUNAR VISE GRNS. DR. HARDGROVE WILL ALSO LEAD THE CHARACTERIZATION AND CALIBRATION OF THE LUNAR VISE GRNS PRIOR TO INSTRUMENT DELIVERY. DR. HARDGROVE WILL ALSO WORK WITH THE SCIENCE TEAM TO DEFINE MEASUREMENT REQUIREMENTS, AND WILL ASSIST WITH THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE GRNS SCIENCE CONCEPT OF OPERATIONS, GRNS SCIENCE OPERATIONS SUPPORT DURING THE NOMINAL MISSION, GRNS DATA REDUCTION AND ANALYSIS, AND WORK ON PUBLICATIONS AND PRESENTATION OF RESULTS AT CONFERENCES. HARDGROVE WILL PARTICIPATE IN MONTHLY AND BIWEEKLY TELECONS THROUGHOUT THE PROJECT. ASU POSTDOC LENA HEFFERN WILL DEVELOP NEUTRON AND GAMMA-RAY TRANSPORT MODELS OF THE LUNAR VISE GRNS TO DETERMINE GAMMA-RAY SENSITIVITIES AND TO DETERMINE ABUNDANCES OF ELEMENTS IN THE SUBSURFACE. HEFFERN WILL ALSO ASSIST WITH GRNS CHARACTERIZATION AND CALIBRATION. RMD WILL TAKE A LEADING ROLE IN THE OVERALL DESIGN FOR THE CLLBC BASED GAMMA RAY-NEUTRON SPECTROMETER (GRNS) SENSOR HEAD FOR THE VISE MISSION. THE EFFORT AT RMD WILL BE LED BY DR. JOHNSON, WHO HAS OVER 20 YEARS OF EXPERIENCE OF NUCLEAR INSTRUMENT DEVELOPMENT. DR. JOHNSON LED THE DESIGN AND FABRICATION EFFORTS FOR THE MINIATURE NEUTRON SPECTROMETER FOR THE LUNAH MISSION, AND HE WILL OVERSEE THE DESIGN AND FABRICATION OF THE INSTRUMENT IN COORDINATION WITH ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY (DR. HARDGROVE) AND AZST (MR. LAZBIN). RMD WILL ALSO LEAD THE QUALIFICATION PROGRAM OF THE CLYC AND CLLBC MODULES AND PRESENT RESULTS TO ASU AND THE LUNAR VISE SCIENCE TEAM. AZ SPACE TECHNOLOGIES (AZST, WHICH MAY BE REPLACED BY ANOTHER VENDOR. DECISION PENDING.) WILL MODIFY THE LUNAH-MAP INSTRUMENT ELECTRONICS DESIGN TO INCORPORATE THE NEW PARTS REQUIRED BY THE PRISM INSTRUMENT. AZST WILL BUILD 3 SETS OF ELECTRONICS BOARDS, DESIGN THE ENCLOSURE AND INSTRUMENT HARNESSES, AND PERFORM THERMAL AND STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS USING INPUTS FROM BALL. AZST WILL INTEGRATE THE PRISM INSTRUMENT AND PERFORM FUNCTIONAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL TESTING AS APPROPRIATE. AZST WILL LEAD THE ASSEMBLY OF AN ENGINEERING UNIT (EU), A QUAL UNIT THAT WILL BE TESTED TO THE PROGRAM ENVIRONMENTAL SPECIFICATIONS, AND THE FLIGHT INSTRUMENT. AZST WILL BE RESPONSIBLE FOR FLIGHT STRUCTURE DESIGN AND WILL WORK WITH BALL TO IMPLEMENT THERMAL CONTROL OF THE INSTRUMENT AND PERFORM A THERMAL ANALYSIS. QWALTEC WILL LEAD THE TESTING OF EU, QUALIFICATION AND FLIGHT INSTRUMENT USING TOOLS DEVELOPED IN THEIR ROLE AS OPERATIONS LEAD FOR THE LUNAH-MAP MISSION. QWALTEC WILL ALSO DEVELOP GROUND DATA SYSTEM TOOLS FOR LUNAR VISE GRNS INSTRUMENT COMMANDING AND TELEMETRY PROCESSING, AND PROVIDE BOTH UPLINK AND DOWNLINK ROLES FOR SCIENCE OPERATIONS. QWALTEC WILL PERFORM OPERATIONS REHEARSALS, READINESS REVIEWS AND PROVIDE FLIGHT OPERATIONS SUPPORT FOR THE LUNAR VISE GRNS INSTRUMENT.
AMENDMENT 002: $ 24,969 7/8/2026 AMENDMENT 001: $21,889 09/17/2025 SUB: $66,956 07/14/2025 STATEMENT OF WORK – BIOS/ASU PROPOSAL: MECHANISTICALLY MODELING THE CONTRIBUTIONS OF VERTICALLY MIGRATING ZOOPLANKTON AND FISHES TO THE OCEAN BIOLOGICAL PUMP AMY MAAS ASSOCIATE SCIENTIST, BERMUDA INSTITUTE OF OCEAN SCIENCES ASSISTANT PROFESSOR, SCHOOL OF OCEAN FUTURES, ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY DR. AMY MAAS WILL BE RESPONSIBLE FOR ZOOPLANKTON AND FISH PARTICLE SIZE DISTRIBUTION DATASET PREPARATION AND ANALYSIS TO SUPPORT THE MODELING EFFORTS. SHE WILL WORK CLOSELY WITH THE OTHER PROJECT PARTICIPANTS TO INCORPORATE DIEL VERTICAL MIGRATION EXPORT PROCESSES, IN PARTICULAR RESPIRATION, DOC, GUT FLUX AND MORTALITY FLUXES, INTO THE MODELS. SHE WILL SUPERVISE THE BIOS BASED TECHNICIAN WHO WILL ASSIST IN FORMATTING DATASETS FOR EASY CROSS COMPARISON AMONG REGIONS. SHE WILL BE RESPONSIBLE FOR POSTING DATA PRODUCTS TO THE APPROPRIATE WEBSITE/DATABASE (SEE DATA MANAGEMENT PLAN) IN A TIMELY FASHION.
BARBONI IS RESPONSIBLE FOR CHEMICAL ABRASION AND DISSOLUTION OF ZIRCONS IN THE CLEAN ROOM AT PRINCETON. SHE WILL ALSO PARTICIPATE IN RUNNING THE TIMS ANALYSES AND REDUCING THE U/PB DATA, ALONG WITH COLLABORATOR SCHOENE.
HOW 'WET' IS THE MOON: INSIGHT FROM HYDROGEN PARTITIONING DURING LUNAR MAGMA OCEAN CRYSTALLIZATION
ASU WILL CONTRIBUTE EXPERT KNOWLEDGE OF RADIO ASTRONOMY ANTENNA DESIGN AND LESSONS LEARNED FROM THE EDGES GROUND-BASED EXPERIMENT. ASU"S SPECIFIC ACTIVITIES WILL BE: 1. MODEL VARIOUS ANTENNA PROPERTIES FOR LUNAR RADIO ARRAYS 2. ANALYZE ANTENNA MODELS TO FORECAST PERFORMANCE FOR DARK AGES AND COSMIC DAWN SCIENCE APPLICATIONS 3. APPLY AND ADAPT DESIGN LESSONS FROM THE EDGES EXPERIMENT 4. CONDUCT OUTREACH AND PUBLIC EDUCATION ACTIVITIES SUCH AS VISITS TO LOCAL SCHOOL GROUPS
DR. HODGES WILL SUPERVISE THE ASU EFFORTS ASSOCIATED WITH THIS PROJECT. DUTIES WILL INCLUDE ASSISTANCE IN THE DESIGN OF AN APPROPRIATE DATABASE STRATEGY FOR LEGACY 40AR/39AR DATA AND SUPERVISON OF THE WORK OF POST-DOCTORAL RESEARCHER CAMERON MERCER. MERCER WILL PLAY A KEY ROLE IN HELPING DEVELOP THE LUNAR 40AR/39AR GEOCHRONOLOGY DATABASE AND INTEGRATING HIS ARAR RECALCULATION SOFTWARE WITH MOONDB.
ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY WILL SUPPORT NASA AWARD 80NSSC21M0082 BY ASSISTING IN PARTNER COMMUNICATION, RECRUITMENT, AND SELECTION FOR THE 350 KITS AWARDED TO NISE NETWORK PARTNERS. THEY WILL ALSO ASSIST IN ACTIVITY DEVELOPMENT THROUGH PARTICIPATION IN TEAM DEVELOPMENT MEETINGS, ASSIST WITH TRAINING VIDEO SCRIPTWRITING, AND SERVE IN AN ADVISORY ROLE FOR THE PROJECT TEAM TO COORDINATE THE PROJECT DESTINATION MOON ACTIVITIES WITH OVERALL NISE NETWORK WORK. ASU PERSONNEL WILL TRAVEL TO INDUSTRY CONFERENCES TO REPRESENT THE NISE NETWORK AND ASSIST IN PARTNER COMMUNICATION AND RECRUITMENT AS PART OF THIS PROJECT.
Lunar awards as prime
| Award | Description | Period | Obligated |
|---|---|---|---|
| NNG07EK00C | THE ROBOTIC LUNAR EXPLORATIONLUNAR PRECURSOR ROBOTIC PROGRAM (RLEPLPRP) CONSISTS OF A SERIES OF ROBOTIC LUNAR EXPLORATION MISSIONS TO PREPARE FOR AND TO SUPPORT FUTURE HUMAN EXPLORATION ACTIVITIES. THE PRIMARY PURPOSE OF THE ROBOTIC PREPARATION IS TO REDUCE RISK, ENHANCE MISSION SUCCESS, AND REDUCE THE COST OF FUTURE HUMAN MISSIONS. THE LRO PAYLOAD USED TO ACCOMPLISH THE MISSION OBJECTIVES CONSISTS OF THE FOLLOWING SIX INSTRUMENTS: 1. LUNAR ORBITER LASER ALTIMETER (LOLA) MEASUREMENT INVESTIGATION SHALL DETERMINE THE GLOBAL TOPOGRAPHY OF THE LUNAR SURFACE AT HIGH RESOLUTION, MEASURE LANDING SITE SLOPES AND SEARCH FOR POLAR ICES IN SHADOWED REGIONS; 2. LUNAR RECONNAISSANCE ORBITER CAMERA (LROC) SHALL ACQUIRE TARGETED IMAGES OF THE LUNAR SURFACE CAPABLE OF RESOLVING SMALL-SCALE FEATURES THAT COULD BE LANDING SITE HAZARDS, AS WELL AS WIDE-ANGLE IMAGES AT MULTIPLE WAVELENGTHS OF THE LUNAR POLES TO DOCUMENT CHANGING ILLUMINATION CONDITIONS AND POTENTIAL RESOURCES; 3. LUNAR EXPLORATION NEUTRON DETECTOR (LEND) SHALL MAP THE FLUX OF NEUTRONS FROM THE LUNAR SURFACE TO SEARCH FOR EVIDENCE OF WATER ICE AND PROVIDE MEASUREMENTS OF THE SPACE RADIATION ENVIRONMENT WHICH CAN BE USEFUL FOR FUTURE HUMAN EXPLORATION; 4. DIVINER LUNAR RADIOMETER EXPERIMENT (DLRE) SHALL MAP THE TEMPERATURE OF THE ENTIRE LUNAR SURFACE AT 300 METER HORIZONTAL SCALES TO IDENTIFY COLD-TRAPS AND POTENTIAL ICE DEPOSITS; 5. LYMAN-ALPHA MAPPING PROJECT (LAMP) SHALL OBSERVE THE ENTIRE LUNAR SURFACE IN THE FAR ULTRAVIOLET TO SEARCH FOR SURFACE ICES AND FROSTS IN THE POLAR REGIONS AND TO PROVIDE IMAGES OF PERMANENTLY SHADOWED REGIONS ILLUMINATED ONLY BY STARLIGHT; 6. COSMIC RAY TELESCOPE FOR THE EFFECTS OF RADIATION (CRATER) SHALL INVESTIGATE THE EFFECT OF GALACTIC COSMIC RAYS ON TISSUE-EQUIVALENT PLASTICS AS A CONSTRAINT ON MODELS OF BIOLOGICAL RESPONSE TO BACKGROUND SPACE RADIATION. EACH INSTRUMENT WILL BE MANAGED BY A PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR (PI), WHO WILL BE RESPONSIBLE FOR DELIVERING THE FLIGHT INSTRUMENT TO THE LRO PROJECT, AS WELL AS PRODUCING THE INSTRUMENT'S DATA PRODUCTS AND DELIVERING THEM TO THE PLANETARY DATA SYSTEM (PDS) IN ACCORDANCE WITH THEIR DATA PRODUCT SPECIFICATION DOCUMENT. | 2006-12-15 → 2026-01-31 | $93M |
| NNH17CG00C | IGF::OT::IGF NASA IS SOLICITING PROPOSALS FOR SCIENTIFIC INSTRUMENTS THAT MIGHT REVEAL ANSWERS ABOUT LUNAR RESOURCES THAT COULD SUPPORT THE AGENCY'S JOURNEY TO MARS. NASA WOULD SPONSOR THE INSTRUMENTS TO FLY ON A LUNAR ORBITER DESIGNED BY THE KOREA AEROSPACE RESEARCH INSTITUTE (KARI). THE SPACECRAFT, THE KOREA PATHFINDER LUNAR ORBITER (KPLO), IS SCHEDULED TO LAUNCH IN DECEMBER 2018, AND IS PART OF KARI'S KOREA LUNAR EXPLORATION PROGRAM, WHICH AIMS TO ROBOTICALLY EXPLORE THE MOON THROUGH A SERIES OF ORBITER AND LANDER MISSIONS, STARTING WITH THE KPLO. KARI, HEADQUARTERED IN DAEJEON, SOUTH KOREA, PROVIDED NASA WITH ABOUT 33 POUNDS (15 KILOGRAMS) OF PAYLOAD MASS ABOARD THE KPLO, WHICH IS SCHEDULED TO LAUNCH INTO LUNAR ORBIT IN DECEMBER 2018. IN SEPTEMBER 2016, NASA ISSUED A SOLICITATION SEEKING SCIENCE INSTRUMENTS THAT COULD INCREASE OUR UNDERSTANDING OF THE DISTRIBUTION OF VOLATILES, SUCH AS WATER, INCLUDING THE MOVEMENT OF SUCH RESOURCES TOWARD PERMANENTLY SHADOWED REGIONS AND HOW THEY BECOME TRAPPED THERE. SHADOWCAM WILL MAP THE REFLECTANCE WITHIN THE PERMANENTLY SHADOWED REGIONS TO SEARCH FOR EVIDENCE OF FROST OR ICE DEPOSITS. THE INSTRUMENT'S OPTICAL CAMERA IS BASED ON THE LUNAR RECONNAISSANCE ORBITER NARROW ANGLE CAMERA, BUT IS 800 TIMES MORE SENSITIVE, ALLOWING IT TO OBTAIN HIGH-RESOLUTION, HIGH SIGNAL-TO-NOISE IMAGING OF THE MOON'S PERMANENTLY SHADOWED REGIONS. SHADOWCAM WILL OBSERVE THE PSRS MONTHLY TO DETECT SEASONAL CHANGES AND MEASURE THE TERRAIN INSIDE THE CRATERS, INCLUDING THE DISTRIBUTION OF BOULDERS. NASA'S ADVANCED EXPLORATION SYSTEMS DIVISION (AES) LED THE PAYLOAD SOLICITATION AND SELECTION FOR THE NASA INSTRUMENT ON KPLO. A DIVISION OF THE HUMAN EXPLORATION AND OPERATIONS MISSION DIRECTORATE, AES USES INNOVATIVE APPROACHES AND PUBLIC-PRIVATE PARTNERSHIPS TO RAPIDLY DEVELOP PROTOTYPE SYSTEMS, ADVANCE KEY CAPABILITIES, AND VALIDATE OPERATIONAL CONCEPTS FOR FUTURE HUMAN MISSIONS BEYOND EARTH ORBIT. THROUGH THIS PARTNERSHIP OPPORTUNITY WITH KARI, AES IS ADDRESSING KEY LUNAR SKGS WHILE COMPLEMENTING KARI'S PRIMARY MISSION OBJECTIVES AND INSTRUMENTS. | 2017-06-15 → 2026-03-31 | $20M |
| 80MSFC26C0002 | THIS CONTRACT IS AWARDED FOR THE ARTEMIS INFRARED REFLECTANCE AND EMISSION SPECTROMETER (AIRES) PAYLOAD, SUPPORTING THE NASA LUNAR TERRAIN VEHICLE INSTRUMENTS (LTVI) PROGRAM. | 2026-04-28 → 2028-11-28 | $10M |
| NNX15AV71G | LUNAR POLAR HYDROGEN MAPPER LUNAH MAP IS A 6U CUBESAT THAT WILL ENTER A POLAR ORBIT AROUND THE MOON WITH A LOW ALTITUDE 5 12KM PERILUNE CENTERED ON T | 2015-10-01 → 2021-09-30 | $9.3M |
| 80NSSC21K0116 | LUNAR POLAR HYDROGEN MAPPER - PART 2 (LUNAH-MAP) | 2020-10-28 → 2024-10-27 | $2.6M |
| 80NSSC25K7371 | EXECUTE A BALANCED SCIENCE PROGRAM BASED ON DISCIPLINE-SPECIFIC GUIDANCE FROM THE NATIONAL ACADEMIES OF SCIENCES ENGINEERING AND MEDICINE ADMINISTRATION PRIORITIES AND DIRECTION FROM CONGRESS. PARTICIPATE AS A KEY PARTNER AND ENABLER IN THE AGENCY S EXPLORATION INITIATIVE FOCUSING ON SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH OF ON AND FROM THE MOON LUNAR ORBIT MARS AND BEYOND. ADVANCE DISCOVERY IN EMERGING FIELDS BY IDENTIFYING AND EXPLOITING CROSS-DISCIPLINARY OPPORTUNITIES BETWEEN TRADITIONAL SCIENCE DISCIPLINES DEVELOP A DIRECTORATE-WIDE TARGET-USER FOCUSED APPROACH TO APPLIED PROGRAMS INCLUDING EARTH SCIENCE APPLICATIONS SPACE WEATHER PLANETARY DEFENSE AND SPACE SITUATIONAL AWARENESS | 2024-10-30 → 2027-10-29 | $1.1M |
| 80NSSC25K7299 | EXECUTE A BALANCED SCIENCE PROGRAM BASED ON DISCIPLINE-SPECIFIC GUIDANCE FROM THE NATIONAL ACADEMIES OF SCIENCES ENGINEERING AND MEDICINE ADMINISTRATION PRIORITIES AND DIRECTION FROM CONGRESS. PARTICIPATE AS A KEY PARTNER AND ENABLER IN THE AGENCY S EXPLORATION INITIATIVE FOCUSING ON SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH OF ON AND FROM THE MOON LUNAR ORBIT MARS AND BEYOND. ADVANCE DISCOVERY IN EMERGING FIELDS BY IDENTIFYING AND EXPLOITING CROSS-DISCIPLINARY OPPORTUNITIES BETWEEN TRADITIONAL SCIENCE DISCIPLINES. DEVELOP A DIRECTORATE-WIDE TARGET-USER FOCUSED APPROACH TO APPLIED PROGRAMS INCLUDING EARTH SCIENCE APPLICATIONS SPACE WEATHER PLANETARY DEFENSE AND SPACE SITUATIONAL AWARENESS. | 2025-01-01 → 2027-12-31 | $744K |
| 80NSSC25K7154 | EXECUTE A BALANCED SCIENCE PROGRAM BASED ON DISCIPLINE-SPECIFIC GUIDANCE FROM THE NATIONAL ACADEMIES OF SCIENCES ENGINEERING AND MEDICINE ADMINISTRATION PRIORITIES AND DIRECTION FROM CONGRESS. PARTICIPATE AS A KEY PARTNER AND ENABLER IN THE AGENCY S EXPLORATION INITIATIVE FOCUSING ON SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH OF ON AND FROM THE MOON LUNAR ORBIT MARS AND BEYOND. ADVANCE DISCOVERY IN EMERGING FIELDS BY IDENTIFYING AND EXPLOITING CROSS-DISCIPLINARY OPPORTUNITIES BETWEEN TRADITIONAL SCIENCE DISCIPLINES DEVELOP A DIRECTORATE-WIDE TARGET-USER FOCUSED APPROACH TO APPLIED PROGRAMS INCLUDING EARTH SCIENCE APPLICATIONS SPACE WEATHER PLANETARY DEFENSE AND SPACE SITUATIONAL AWARENESS. | 2025-01-01 → 2027-12-31 | $685K |
| 80NSSC20K0826 | THE PROPOSAL WOULD MATURE A PATHFINDER SEISMOMETER (SUBLIME) FOR LUNAR AND PLANETARY MISSIONS. SUBLIME WOULD BE BASED ON A MOLECULAR ELECTRONIC TRANSDUCER (MET) TECHNOLOGICAL DESIGN WHICH WOULD BE RUGGED COST-EFFECTIVE SIMPLE TO DEPLOY AND ALLOW FLEXIBLE INCORPORATION ON A BROAD RANGE OF FUTURE COMMERCIAL LANDER MISSIONS AND LONG TERM MONITORING STATIONS. | 2020-03-18 → 2025-03-17 | $658K |
| 80NSSC25K7172 | EXECUTE A BALANCED SCIENCE PROGRAM BASED ON DISCIPLINE-SPECIFIC GUIDANCE FROM THE NATIONAL ACADEMIES OF SCIENCES ENGINEERING AND MEDICINE ADMINISTRATION PRIORITIES AND DIRECTION FROM CONGRESS. PARTICIPATE AS A KEY PARTNER AND ENABLER IN THE AGENCY S EXPLORATION INITIATIVE FOCUSING ON SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH OF ON AND FROM THE MOON LUNAR ORBIT MARS AND BEYOND. ADVANCE DISCOVERY IN EMERGING FIELDS BY IDENTIFYING AND EXPLOITING CROSS-DISCIPLINARY OPPORTUNITIES BETWEEN TRADITIONAL SCIENCE DISCIPLINES DEVELOP A DIRECTORATE-WIDE TARGET-USER FOCUSED APPROACH TO APPLIED PROGRAMS INCLUDING EARTH SCIENCE APPLICATIONS SPACE WEATHER PLANETARY DEFENSE AND SPACE SITUATIONAL AWARENESS. | 2025-01-01 → 2026-12-31 | $633K |
| 80NSSC20M0086 | DEPLOYABLE OPTICAL RECEIVER APERTURE FOR LUNAR COMMUNICATIONS AND NAVIGATION | 2020-07-01 → 2025-06-30 | $600K |
| 80NSSC25K7184 | EXECUTE A BALANCED SCIENCE PROGRAM BASED ON DISCIPLINE-SPECIFIC GUIDANCE FROM THE NATIONAL ACADEMIES OF SCIENCES ENGINEERING AND MEDICINE ADMINISTRATION PRIORITIES AND DIRECTION FROM CONGRESS. PARTICIPATE AS A KEY PARTNER AND ENABLER IN THE AGENCY S EXPLORATION INITIATIVE FOCUSING ON SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH OF ON AND FROM THE MOON LUNAR ORBIT MARS AND BEYOND. ADVANCE DISCOVERY IN EMERGING FIELDS BY IDENTIFYING AND EXPLOITING CROSS-DISCIPLINARY OPPORTUNITIES BETWEEN TRADITIONAL SCIENCE DISCIPLINES DEVELOP A DIRECTORATE-WIDE TARGET-USER FOCUSED APPROACH TO APPLIED PROGRAMS INCLUDING EARTH SCIENCE APPLICATIONS SPACE WEATHER PLANETARY DEFENSE AND SPACE SITUATIONAL AWARENESS. | 2024-10-15 → 2027-10-14 | $594K |
| 80NSSC25K7043 | THE ROSES FUNDING OPPORTUNITY GOALS ARE: EXECUTE A BALANCED SCIENCE PROGRAM BASED ON DISCIPLINE-SPECIFIC GUIDANCE FROM THE NATIONAL ACADEMIES OF SCIENCES ENGINEERING AND MEDICINE ADMINISTRATION PRIORITIES AND DIRECTION FROM CONGRESS. PARTICIPATE AS A KEY PARTNER AND ENABLER IN THE AGENCY S EXPLORATION INITIATIVE FOCUSING ON SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH OF ON AND FROM THE MOON LUNAR ORBIT MARS AND BEYOND. ADVANCE DISCOVERY IN EMERGING FIELDS BY IDENTIFYING AND EXPLOITING CROSS-DISCIPLINARY OPPORTUNITIES BETWEEN TRADITIONAL SCIENCE DISCIPLINES DEVELOP A DIRECTORATE-WIDE TARGET-USER FOCUSED APPROACH TO APPLIED PROGRAMS INCLUDING EARTH SCIENCE APPLICATIONS SPACE WEATHER PLANETARY DEFENSE AND SPACE SITUATIONAL AWARENESS. | 2025-01-01 → 2027-12-31 | $535K |
| 80NSSC25K7174 | EXECUTE A BALANCED SCIENCE PROGRAM BASED ON DISCIPLINE-SPECIFIC GUIDANCE FROM THE NATIONAL ACADEMIES OF SCIENCES ENGINEERING AND MEDICINE ADMINISTRATION PRIORITIES AND DIRECTION FROM CONGRESS. PARTICIPATE AS A KEY PARTNER AND ENABLER IN THE AGENCY S EXPLORATION INITIATIVE FOCUSING ON SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH OF ON AND FROM THE MOON LUNAR ORBIT MARS AND BEYOND. ADVANCE DISCOVERY IN EMERGING FIELDS BY IDENTIFYING AND EXPLOITING CROSS-DISCIPLINARY OPPORTUNITIES BETWEEN TRADITIONAL SCIENCE DISCIPLINES. DEVELOP A DIRECTORATE-WIDE TARGET-USER FOCUSED APPROACH TO APPLIED PROGRAMS INCLUDING EARTH SCIENCE APPLICATIONS SPACE WEATHER PLANETARY DEFENSE AND SPACE SITUATIONAL AWARENESS. | 2025-01-01 → 2027-12-31 | $530K |
| 80NSSC19K0028 | HAUMEA IS A DWARF PLANET IN THE KUIPER BELT THAT IS A RAPID ROTATOR (P=3.9 HR) WITH A PRONOUNCED LIGHT CURVE DESPITE AN APPARENTLY UNIFORM SURFACE IMPLYING A TRIAXIAL ELLIPSOID SHAPE CONSISTENT WITH A JACOBI ELLIPSOID. HAUMEA POSSESSES TWO MOONS AND A RING AND IS THE ONLY KUIPER BELT OBJECT WITH A KNOWN COLLISIONAL FAMILY OF ABOUT A DOZEN ICY FRAGMENTS . IT IS INFERRED TO HAVE SUFFERED A LARGE COLLISION IN THE PAST THAT STRIPPED ITS ICY MANTLE. HAUMEA THEREFORE OFFERS A UNIQUE OPPORTUNITY TO PROBE THE INTERIOR OF AN ICY BODY AND TO INVESTIGATE THE PROPERTIES OF MANTLE-STRIPPING COLLISIONS. THESE ARE PROCESSES ONGOING THROUGHOUT THE SOLAR SYSTEM. THE FIRST GOAL IS TO CONSTRAIN THE SIZE AND SHAPE OF HAUMEA AND THE SIZE AND SHAPE OF ITS ROCKY CORE. UNTIL THIS YEAR IT WAS THOUGHT THAT HAUMEA HAD A LARGE ROCKY CORE AND THIN ICE MANTLE BUT NEW OBSERVATIONS OF HAUMEA'S SHADOW DURING AN OCCULTATION EVENT BY ORTIZ ET AL. (2017) INDICATE A LARGE ICY MANTLE AND POSSIBLY A SHAPE NOT CONSISTENT WITH A FLUID IN HYDROSTATIC EQUILIBRIUM. IT IS IMPORTANT TO CONSTRAIN THE ORIGINS OF THE HAUMEA COLLISIONAL FAMILY TO LEARN ABOUT MANTLE-STRIPPING EVENTS GENERALLY. THERE ARE VARIOUS THEORIES ABOUT ITS ORIGIN INCLUDING THE LEINHARDT ET AL. (2010) "GRAZE-AND-MERGE" SCENARIO AND THE SCHLICHTING&SARI (2009) MOON DISRUPTION SCENARIO. THE LEINHARDT ET AL. (2010) SCENARIO IS CONSISTENT WITH THE ANGULAR MOMENTUM OF HAUMEA BUT NOT AS OBVIOUSLY WITH THE LOW MASS OF EJECTED ICE AND THE LOW DELTA V OF THE COLLISIONAL FAMILY MEMBERS. THE SCHLICHTING&SARI (2009) SCENARIO IS CONSISTENT WITH THE LOW DELTA V BUT REQUIRES TIDAL MIGRATION OF AN IMPACT-FORMED MOON AND IS LESS PROBABLE. | 2018-10-12 → 2022-10-11 | $460K |
| 80NSSC21K0181 | THE PRIMARY OBJECTIVE OF THE WORK PROPOSED HERE IS TO BETTER UNDERSTAND THE ORIGIN OF THE VARIABILITY IN HYDROGEN ISOTOPE COMPOSITIONS THAT HAS PREVIOUSLY BEEN OBSERVED IN LUNAR APATITES WITHIN AND AMONG LUNAR BASALTS. | 2021-01-01 → 2026-12-31 | $436K |
| 80NSSC19K0037 | MUCH OF OUR PRESENT QUANTITATIVE UNDERSTANDING OF THE IMPACT HISTORY OF THE INNER SOLAR SYSTEM -- A MAJOR DOMAIN OF INTEREST FOR THE SOLAR SYSTEM WORKINGS PROGRAM -- DERIVES FROM 40AR/39AR GEOCHRONOLOGY OF LUNAR IMPACT MELT MATERIALS IN RETURNED SAMPLES AND METEORITES. MOST PUBLISHED DATES WERE OBTAINED THROUGH INCREMENTAL HEATING EXPERIMENTS PERFORMED ON POLYMINERALIC (OR MINERALS + MELT) ROCK FRAGMENTS OF SUCH MATERIAL. UNFORTUNATELY THE INTERPRETATION OF AGE SPECTRA PRODUCED FROM SUCH EXPERIMENTS IS NOT ALWAYS STRAIGHTFORWARD. IT HAS BEEN SHOWN RECENTLY THAT 40AR/39AR ULTRAVIOLET LASER ABLATION MICROPROBE (UVLAMP) STUDIES OF SUCH COMPLEX MATERIALS WITH HIGH SPATIAL RESOLUTION CAN PROVIDE VALUABLE AGE INFORMATION AND AID IN THE INTERPRETATION OF INCREMENTAL HEATING DATASETS (E.G. MERCER ET AL. 2015 SCIENCE ADVANCES). ENCOURAGED BY PRELIMINARY RESULTS FOR APOLLO 15 SAMPLE 15455 WE PROPOSE TO USE UVLAMP TECHNOLOGY TO QUANTIFY THE DISTRIBUTION OF RADIOGENIC 40AR IN ANCIENT (PRESUMABLY PRE-4.0 GA) PLUTONIC PLAGIOCLASE XENOCRYSTS FOUND IN APOLLO 15 AND 16 IMPACT MELT BRECCIAS AND TO LEVERAGE THAT INFORMATION TO CONSTRAIN THE AGES AND THERMAL HISTORIES OF THE IMPACT MELTS IN WHICH THEY ARE FOUND. SIMILAR ANALYSES OF PLAGIOCLASE CRYSTALS IN LARGER XENOLITHS AND COMPARISON WITH THE XENOCRYST RESULTS MAY PROVIDE ADDITIONAL INSIGHTS REGARDING THE THERMAL HISTORIES OF THE SOURCE REGIONS OF THOSE LITHIC CLASTS. OUR INTENT IS TO ADD SUBSTANTIVELY TO OUR UNDERSTANDING OF THE SPECTRUM OF AGES AND EXTENTS OF IMPACT MELTS AT VARIOUS APOLLO COLLECTION SITES. GOALS OF THE PROPOSED WORK INCLUDE: 1) DEMONSTRATING THE UTILITY OF LASER MICROPROBE 40AR/39AR DATING OF ENTRAINED PLAGIOCLASE XENOCRYSTS FOR ESTABLISHING PRECISE IMPACT MELT AGES; 2) ESTABLISHING THE AGES OF IMPACT MELTING EVENTS RESPONSIBLE FOR THE MELT BRECCIAS COLLECTED AT THE APOLLO 15 AND 16 LANDING SITES; 3) ADDING TO OUR UNDERSTANDING OF VARIATIONS IN THE DIFFUSIVITY OF AR ISOTOPES IN LUNAR PLAGIOCLASES; 4) QUANTIFYING 40AR/39AR APPARENT AGE GRADIENTS - OR LACK OF GRADIENTS - IN COARSE PLAGIOCLASE XENOCRYSTS AND COARSE PLAGIOCLASE CRYSTALS IN XENOLITHS; 5) CONSTRAINING THE PLAUSIBLE MAXIMUM TEMPERATURE-DURATION RELATIONSHIPS OF THE EVENTS RESPONSIBLE FOR DEVELOPMENT OF THE STUDIED BRECCIAS THROUGH THERMAL-KINETIC MODELING OF THE ACQUIRED UVLAMP DATA; AND 6) EVALUATING THE EXTENT TO WHICH 40AR/39AR GEOCHRONOLOGY OF APOLLO 15 AND 16 IMPACT MELT SAMPLES CAN BE EXPECTED TO PROVIDE ACCURATE AND PRECISE CONSTRAINTS ON THE AGE OF THE IMBRIUM IMPACT. | 2018-10-12 → 2023-04-15 | $287K |
| 80NSSC24K0744 | EFFECTS OF LUNAR DUST SIMULANT ON HUMAN 3D BIOMIMETIC INTESTINAL MODELS ENTERIC MICROORGANISMS AND INFECTIOUS DISEASE RISKS | 2024-02-26 → 2027-02-25 | $285K |
| 80NSSC21K1803 | MUCH OF OUR QUANTITATIVE UNDERSTANDING OF THE IMPACT HISTORY OF THE INNER SOLAR SYSTEM DERIVES FROM 40AR/39AR GEOCHRONOLOGY OF LUNAR IMPACT MELT MATERIALS IN RETURNED SAMPLES AND METEORITES. MOST PUBLISHED DATES WERE OBTAINED THROUGH INCREMENTAL HEATING EXPERIMENTS PERFORMED ON POLYMINERALIC (OR MINERALS + MELT) ROCK FRAGMENTS OF SUCH MATERIAL. UNFORTUNATELY THE INTERPRETATION OF AGE SPECTRA PRODUCED FROM SUCH EXPERIMENTS IS NOT ALWAYS STRAIGHTFORWARD. IT HAS BEEN SHOWN RECENTLY THAT 40AR/39AR ULTRAVIOLET LASER ABLATION MICROPROBE (UVLAMP) STUDIES OF COMPLEX IMPACT MELT BRECCIAS (IMBS) WITH HIGH SPATIAL RESOLUTION CAN PROVIDE VALUABLE AGE INFORMATION AND AID IN THE INTERPRETATION OF INCREMENTAL HEATING DATASETS. THUS FAR ALL UVLAMP 40AR/39AR STUDIES OF IMBS.HAVE FOCUSED ON SAMPLES RETURNED BY THE APOLLO MISSIONS. HOWEVER OLDER INCREMENTAL HEATING DATASETS FOR SIMILAR LITHOLOGIES IN LUNAR METEORITES SUGGEST THAT THE STUDIES OF THESE MATERIALS MAY SUBSTANTIALLY IMPROVE OUR UNDERSTANDING OF THE LUNAR IMPACT RECORD..HERE WE PROPOSE AN INTENSIVE MULTIFACETED INCREMENTAL HEATING AND UVLAMP STUDY OF LUNAR METEORITES WITH THE GOAL OF BETTER UNDERSTANDING THE IMPACT HISTORY OF THE MOON. THIS WILL BE THE FIRST EXTENSIVE UVLAMP 40AR/39AR MICROANALYTICAL STUDY OF LUNAR METEORITE SAMPLES. BY APPLYING THIS TECHNIQUE WE HOPE TO REDUCED AMBIGUITIES IN THE AGE INTERPRETATION OF INCREMENTAL HEATING.DATASETS AND ACHIEVE A MORE ROBUST UNDERSTANDING OF IMPACT MELTING EVENTS RECORDED BY LUNAR METEORITES IMPORTANTLY THIS STUDY AUGMENTS PREVIOUS 40AR/39AR STUDIES OF LUNAR IMPACT MELT MATERIALS IN THE APOLLO ARCHIVE. BECAUSE THE APOLLO SAMPLES WERE COLLECTED IN A GEOGRAPHICALLY RESTRICTED REGION OF THE MOON OUR COMMUNITY PERSPECTIVE OF THE IMPACT HISTORY WAY BE STRONGLY BIASED BY IMPACT MATERIALS DERIVED FROM A FEW LARGE NEARBY IMPACTS. A MORE COMPREHENSIVE SENSE OF THE IMPACT HISTORY OF THE MOON REQUIRES A BROADER SAMPLING OF MATERIALS FROM OTHER PARTS OF THE MOON. UNTIL SUCH MATERIALS ARE RETURNED BY FUTURE EXPLORATION MISSIONS THE STUDY OF.LUNAR METEORITES IS OUR MOST EFFECTIVE WAY TO LIMIT BIAS IN OUR UNDERSTANDING OF LUNAR IMPACT CHRONOLOGY. SUCH UNDERSTANDING IS A HIGH PRIORITY GOAL FOR NASA-SUPPORTED LUNAR SCIENCE AND DIRECTLY RELEVANT TO THE GOALS OF THE SOLAR SYSTEM WORKINGS PROGRAM. | 2021-08-19 → 2025-08-18 | $241K |
| 80NSSC24K1812 | 23-PLANET23-0129 - INVESTIGATING THE EFFECTS OF SHOCK ON THE WATER CONTENTS AND HYDROGEN ISOTOPE SYSTEMATICS IN NOMINALLY ANHYDROUS MINERALS WITHIN LUNAR BASALTS | 2024-12-23 → 2027-12-22 | $150K |
| 80NSSC19K0643 | GOALS AND OBJECTIVES: IMPACT CRATER SIZE FREQUENCY STATISTICS ENABLES THE ESTIMATION OF RELATIVE AND ABSOLUTE MODEL AGES OF UNSAMPLED UNITS ON THE MOON AND OTHER SOLAR SYSTEM OBJECTS [1 2]. ONE TECHNIQUE USED TO EXAMINE THE CURRENT IMPACT RATE IS TO LOOK FOR SURFACE CHANGES IN A BEFORE AND AFTER IMAGE WITH SIMILAR LIGHTING OFTEN REFERRED TO AS A TEMPORAL IMAGE PAIR. RECENTLY ANALYSIS OF TEMPORAL IMAGES ACQUIRED WITH THE LUNAR RECONNAISSANCE ORBITER (LRO) NARROW ANGLE CAMERA (NAC) AND WIDE ANGLE CAMERA (WAC) [3] HAS REVEALED HUNDREDS OF NEWLY FORMED IMPACT CRATERS AND THOUSANDS OF OTHER SURFACE CHANGES [4 5]. ONE LIMITATION TO THIS TECHNIQUE IS THE REQUIREMENT THAT TWO IMAGES MUST COVER THE SAME SURFACE AREA UNDER SIMILAR ILLUMINATION CONDITIONS. BY LEVERAGING IMAGES FROM MULTIPLE MISSIONS WE CAN INCREASE THE NUMBER OF IMAGES THAT SATISFY THESE RESTRICTIONS AS WELL AS INCREASE THE TIME BETWEEN THE OBSERVATIONS. FIRST WE WILL COMPARE RECENTLY DIGITIZED APOLLO METRIC PHOTOGRAPHS [6] FROM THE 1970'S TO LRO WAC IMAGES WITH SIMILAR LIGHTING CONDITIONS. NEXT WE WILL COMPARE THE NEAR GLOBAL IMAGE DATASET FROM THE SELENE TERRAIN CAMERA (TC) ACQUIRED BETWEEN 2008 AND 2009 TO A SUBSET OF OVER A MILLION PUBLICLY AVAILABLE LRO NAC IMAGES [7]. THESE MULTI-MISSION COMPARISON WILL ENABLE A MORE ROBUST ESTIMATE OF THE CURRENT CRATERING RATE ON THE MOON FOR CRATERS RANGING BETWEEN 20-100 M WHICH IS A KEY DIAMETER RANGE WHEN CALCULATING MODEL AGES OF YOUNG SURFACES USING CRATER SIZE FREQUENCY STATISTICS. FURTHERMORE ANALYSIS OF THESE RECENT SURFACE CHANGES WILL ALSO PROVIDE INSIGHT INTO THE CRATER FORMATION PROCESS THE DISTRIBUTION OF EJECTA AND RESULTING RAYS AS WELL AS AID IN QUANTIFYING THE NUMBER OF CORRESPONDING SECONDARY CHANGES THAT FORM WITH EACH EVENT [5]. METHODOLOGY: WE WILL FIRST SELECT WAC IMAGES ACQUIRED UNDER SIMILAR LIGHTING CONDITION TO THAT OF THE METRIC PHOTOGRAPHS. WE WILL THEN MAP PROJECT AND CO-REGISTER EACH WAC IMAGE TO THE DIGITAL METRIC PHOTOGRAPH CORRECTING ANY PLANIMETRIC OFFSETS BETWEEN THE TWO DATASETS AND ALIGN ALL THE FEATURES TO WITHIN A PIXEL. THEN BY LEVERAGING IMAGE PROCESSING TECHNIQUES DEVELOPED BY OUR TEAM TO PROCESS BEFORE AND AFTER LRO NAC IMAGE PAIRS [5] WE WILL SCAN AND IDENTIFY SURFACE CHANGES IN THE TEMPORAL PAIRS. THE SAME TECHNIQUE WILL BE APPLIED TO LRO NAC AND TC IMAGES. DUE TO THE SIZE OF THE NAC AND TC DATASET A SEMI-AUTOMATIC CHANGE DETECTION PROGRAM WILL BE USED TO LOCATE CHANGES BASED ON REFLECTANCE VARIATIONS AND CHANGES IN SURFACE TEXTURE. THE PROGRAM WAS USED IN [5] AND PROVIDES A LIST OF POTENTIAL NEW FEATURES FOR MANUAL INSPECTION AND CLASSIFICATION. THIS APPROACH REDUCES THE TIME TO MANUALLY INSPECT IMAGE PAIRS BY PROVIDING CROPPED CUTOUTS WITH THE PUTATIVE CHANGES ENABLING RAPID AND SYSTEMATIC PROCESSING OF THOUSANDS OF TEMPORAL PAIRS. BY MEASURING AND TRACKING THE SIZE DISTRIBUTION SPATIAL COVERAGE AND TIME BETWEEN EACH TEMPORAL PAIR WE WILL DERIVE A NEW IMPACT RATE FOR CRATERS<~100 M. RELEVANCE: THIS PROPOSAL IS IN DIRECT RESPONSE TO THE LDAP REQUEST FOR INVESTIGATIONS FOCUSED ON LUNAR CHANGE DETECTION. OUR TEAM WILL IDENTIFY CLASSIFY AND DOCUMENT SURFACE CHANGES USING BEFORE IMAGES PROVIDED BY APOLLO METRIC CAMERA [6] AND SELENE TC [7] AND AFTER IMAGES PROVIDED BY THE LRO NAC AND WAC [3]. ALL DATASETS ARE PUBLICLY AVAILABLE THROUGH THE PLANETARY DATA SYSTEM (PDS) APOLLO IMAGE ARCHIVE AND THE JAXA SELENE DATA ARCHIVE. NOTE REGARDING FLIGHT TEAM MEMBERS: ALL MEMBERS OF THIS PROPOSAL TEAM ARE PARTICIPANTS IN THE LROC INVESTIGATION BUT ARE NOT FUNDED TO CONDUCT MULTI-MISSION ANALYSIS. REFERENCES: [1] NEUKUM ET AL. 2001 SPACE SCI. REV. 96 55-86 [2] HARTMANN W. K. 2005 ICARUS 174 294-320 [3] ROBINSON ET AL. 2010 SPACE SCI. REV. 150: 81-124 [4] ROBINSON ET AL. 2015 ICARUS 252 229-235 [5] SPEYERER ET AL. 2016 NATURE 538 215-218 [6] DOYLE 1970 PHOTOGRAMMETRIC ENGINEERING 36 1039-1044 [7] HARUYAMA ET AL. 2008 EARTH PLANETS SPACE 60 243-255 | 2019-03-13 → 2024-03-12 | $137K |
| 80NSSC21K1543 | IMPACT CRATERING OCCURS ON ROCKY BODIES ACROSS THE SOLAR SYSTEM INCLUDING THE EARTH AND MOON. | 2021-09-01 → 2024-08-31 | $135K |
| 80NSSC19K1413 | THE NEXT FRONTIER IS TO USE SPACE BASED RADIO TELESCOPES AND WITH THE MOON MISSIONS GAINING MORE INTEREST IN THE RECENT YEARS A LUNAR RADIO ARRAY IS THE FUTURE. THE ULTIMATE GOAL WILL BE TO BUILD A 100 000 ELEMENT LUNAR ARRAY. HOWEVER IT'S CRUCIAL TO BUILD A BIG MISSION LIKE THIS IN STAGES SO I PROPOSE TO MODEL/DESIGN A PROOF OF CONCEPT ARRAY THAT WILL INFORM THE LUNAR MISSION. | 2019-09-01 → 2022-08-31 | $112K |
| 80NSSC20K0260 | WE PROPOSE A LONG-LIVED ROVING LUNAR EXPLORER INTREPID TO COLLECT ESSENTIAL MEASUREMENTS TO ADDRESS KEY SCIENTIFIC AND EXPLORATION QUESTIONS AND DEMONSTRATE TECHNOLOGIES REQUIRED FOR FUTURE ROBOTIC AND HUMAN EXPLORATION OF THE MOON MARS | 2019-11-08 → ? | $103K |
| NNX14AQ04G | ONE OF THE TOP PRIORITIES IN LUNAR SCIENCE FOR NASA IS TO ESTABLISH AN ABSOLUTE CHRONOLOGY OF LUNAR IMPACT EVENTS, WITH SIGNIFICANT IMPLICATIONS FOR | 2014-08-21 → ? | $95K |
| 80NSSC21K0865 | NASA S CASSINI MISSION (2004-2017) REVEALED THE COMPLEX GEOLOGIC LANDSCAPE AND ACTIVE METEOROLOGICAL CYCLE OF SATURN S LARGEST MOON..... | 2021-04-09 → 2027-10-31 | $73K |
| 80NSSC17K0472 | PLANET FORMATION CONCLUDES WITH COLLISIONS OF PROTOPLANETS THAT LEAD TO A MYRIAD OF PRESENT-DAY FEATURES IN OUR SOLAR SYSTEM INCLUDING THE LARGE CORE OF MERCURY THE EARTH S MOON AND THE PLUTO-CHARON SYSTEM. GIANT IMPACTS GENERATE A SIGNIFICANT AMOUNT OF BOUND AND ESCAPING DEBRIS; HOWEVER CURRENT PARAMETERIZED HYDRODYNAMIC STUDIES ONLY DESCRIBE THE LARGEST ONE OR TWO REMNANTS IN MINIMAL DETAIL. THESE STUDIES ALSO LACK KEY ANGLE SIZE-SCALE AND COMPOSITION DEPENDENCE OF GIANT IMPACT OUTCOMES NECESSARY FOR INFORMING CUTTING-EDGE N-BODY PLANETARY EVOLUTION MODELS. DUE TO THESE DEFICIENCIES CURRENT N-BODY CODES LACK THE ABILITY TO ACCOUNT FOR THE ORBITAL DAMPING OF TERRESTRIAL PLANETS AND THE MIXING OF MATERIAL BETWEEN PLANETARY BODIES. THE NATURE OF GIANT IMPACT DEBRIS IS PARAMOUNT IN UNDERSTANDING THE GENESIS OF SMALL BODY POPULATIONS SATELLITE SYSTEMS AND RE-IMPACTING BOLIDES. FOR EXAMPLE EVIDENCE OF DEBRIS FROM THE MOON-FORMING GIANT IMPACT WAS FOUND IN THE MAIN-BELT ASTEROID POPULATION. COLLISIONS WILL NOT ONLY PREFERENTIALLY EXCAVATE ICY OR ROCKY MANTLE MATERIAL BUT ESCAPING DEBRIS ON HELIOCENTRIC ORBITS WILL SERVE AS A HEAT SOURCE IN THE FORM OF RE-IMPACTING BOLIDES FOR TENS IF NOT HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS OF YEARS. IT HAS ALSO BEEN SHOWN THAT NEARLY EQUAL AMOUNTS OF DEBRIS FROM THE MOON-FORMING IMPACT CAN BE DISTRIBUTED ONTO VENUS AS ONTO EARTH. THIS SUGGESTS GIANT IMPACT DEBRIS PLAYS AN INTIMATE ROLE IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF PLANETARY SURFACES AND THAT VOLATILE MANTLE MATERIAL CAN BE EFFECTIVELY TRANSPORTED THROUGHOUT THE SOLAR SYSTEM. I WILL DEVELOP A COMPREHENSIVE DESCRIPTION OF THE AFTERMATH OF GIANT IMPACTS WHERE THE DYNAMICAL PARAMETERS AND COMPOSITIONAL DIVERSITY OF BOTH THE LARGEST REMNANTS AND THE DEBRIS WILL BE OUTLINED. I WILL PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE SCALE- AND ANGLE-DEPENDENCE OF EXCAVATED MANTLE MATERIAL INCLUDING THAT OF WATER AND SILICATES AND TO THE TRAJECTORY ON WHICH THIS DEBRIS ESCAPES. THIS WORK WILL LEVERAGE AN EXISTING SUITE MORE THAN 1500 HIGH-RESOLUTION SMOOTHED PARTICLE HYDRODYNAMICS (SPH) GIANT IMPACT SIMULATIONS DEVELOPED OVER SEVERAL YEARS. THIS DATABASE SPANS THE WIDEST RANGE OF PRE-IMPACT CONDITIONS TO DATE AND INCLUDES COMPOSITIONS AND SIZES ANALOGOUS TO BOTH INNER AND OUTER SOLAR SYSTEM OBJECTS. RESULTS WILL BE MADE PUBLICLY AVAILABLE IN AN ONLINE DATABASE TO ENCOURAGE CROSS-VERIFICATION OF GIANT IMPACT OUTCOMES IN OTHER SPH CODES USED IN THE COMMUNITY. PUBLISHED SCALING LAWS WILL BE DESIGNED SUCH THAT THEY ARE READILY ADOPTED INTO EXISTING PLANETARY EVOLUTION MODELS E.G. N-BODY PLANET FORMATION CODES. | 2017-09-01 → ? | $68K |
| 80NSSC22K1145 | USING SCIENTIFIC AND OPERATIONAL TECHNIQUES LEARNED FROM ROVER MISSIONS TO SUPPORT ARTEMIS SCIENCE OBJECTIVES AND TRAVERSE PLANNING | 2022-06-14 → 2023-06-13 | $30K |
| 80NSSC23K0761 | A. HUFF CONTRIBUTION TO ANALOG ACTIVITIES TO SUPPORT ARTEMIS LUNAR OPERATIONS | 2023-05-01 → 2025-04-30 | $27K |
| 80NSSC26K0368 | THE LUNAR POLAR HYDROGEN MAPPER (LUNAH-MAP) MISSION LAUNCHED ABOARD ARTEMIS I WAS DESIGNED TO MAP HYDROGEN AT THE LUNAR SOUTH POLE USING HIGH-RESOLUTION NEUTRON SPECTROSCOPY. ALTHOUGH THE SPACECRAFT DID NOT REACH ITS INTENDED ORBIT THE MINIATURE N | 2026-02-26 → 2027-02-25 | $25K |
| 80NSSC20K1371 | THE WORK PROPOSED HERE WILL ULTIMATELY ALLOW FOR A COMPARISON OF THE EVOLUTION OF TYPE A B AND U LUNAR VOLCANISM AND MAY PROVIDE IMPORTANT CLUES ON THE DIFFERENTIATION HISTORY OF THE MOON. | 2020-09-01 → ? | $0 |