Northern Arizona University
Lunar obligations
$3.3Mas prime
Lunar awards
9as prime
Its subcontractors
0none reported
Primes it works for
4$2.0M in subawards
Who it subcontracts to
No subawards reported under its lunar awards.
Who it works for
EMISSION IMAGER FOR LUNAR INFRARED ANALYSIS IN 3D (EMILIA-3D)
FFATA: A DIGITAL TWIN INTEGRATING KNOWLEDGE AND AI FOR UNDERSTANDING CARBON AND BIODIVERSITY CORRIDORS IN CENTRAL AFRICA
CSTL WILL WORK WITH THE PLANETARY REACH TEAM TO PLAN CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS AND PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT INSTITUTES. CSTL WILL CO-FACILITATE AT LEAST ONE CONFERENCE PRESENTATION AND UP TO THREE WORKSHOPS AND PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT DAYS ACROSS THE COUNTRY PER YEAR. THE WORKSHOPS WILL ENABLE PARTICIPANTS TO UTILIZE THE MATERIALS, AND UNDERSTAND AUDIENCE NEEDS TO SUPPORT BETTER CONNECTIONS.
ARTEMIS INFRARED REFLECTANCE AND EMISSION SPECTROMETER (AIRES)
Lunar awards as prime
| Award | Description | Period | Obligated |
|---|---|---|---|
| 80NSSC25K7195 | 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. | 2024-11-15 → 2027-11-14 | $899K |
| 80NSSC22K1375 | WE PROPOSE TO INVESTIGATE SPACE WEATHERING IN CARBONACEOUS CHONDRITE METEORITES FOCUSING ON HOW THE 3- M SPECTRAL REGION AS WELL AS THE STRUCTURAL AND CHEMICAL PROPERTIES OF THESE SAMPLES ARE ALTERED BY ION AND LASER IRRADIATION. IN THIS THREE-YEAR STUDY WE WILL BUILD ON OUR EXPERIENCE STUDYING SPACE WEATHERING OF CHONDRITIC LUNAR AND ASTEROID ANALOGS BY EXAMINING WEATHERING IN RELEVANT CARBONACEOUS CHONDRITE METEORITES INDUCED BY LASER AND ION IRRADIATION. THIS STUDY WILL BE THE FIRST TO SYSTEMATICALLY INVESTIGATE BOTH SPACE WEATHERING PROCESSES IN A SUITE OF RELEVANT METEORITE SAMPLES USING REGOLITH-LIKE SAMPLES AS WELL AS THE FIRST TO STUDY THE THREE MAIN PROCESSES (DIRECT LASER IRRADIATION DIRECT ION IRRADIATION AND VAPOR REDEPOSITION) USING THE SAME EXPERIMENTAL SETUP. USING MID-INFRARED REFLECTANCE SPECTROSCOPY (MID-IR) X-RAY PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY (XPS) AND TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY/ ENERGY DISPERSIVE SPECTROSCOPY (TEM/EDS) AS OUR MAIN DIAGNOSTIC TOOLS WE WILL FOCUS ON THE FOLLOWING OVERARCHING QUESTION: WHAT ARE THE CHARACTERISTICS OF HYDRATED CARBONACEOUS ASTEROIDS AND METEORITES THAT HAVE BEEN SUBJECTED TO SPACE WEATHERING PROCESSES? THIS PROPOSED SYSTEMATIC STUDY WILL SIGNIFICANTLY ENHANCE OUR UNDERSTANDING OF HOW THE SPECTRAL FEATURES INDICATIVE OF HYDRATED ASTEROIDS ARE ALTERED BY SPACE WEATHERING. THIS KNOWLEDGE WILL GREATLY INCREASE THE ABILITY OF SCIENTISTS TO USE THIS SPECTRAL REGION FOR COMPOSITIONAL ANALYSIS OF HYDRATED ASTEROIDS AN APPROACH THAT WE ANTICIPATE WILL BE EVEN MORE COMMON AFTER THE LAUNCH OF THE JAMES WEBB SPACE TELESCOPE. ADDITIONALLY WHILE THIS PROPOSAL IS NOT FOCUSED ON ONE SPECIFIC ASTEROID WE ANTICIPATE THAT OUR STUDY WILL YIELD INFORMATION CRITICAL FOR INTERPRETING DATA FROM REMOTE SENSING OBSERVATIONS MADE OF OSIRIS-REX AND HAYABUSA2 MISSIONS WHICH ARE TARGETING WHAT ARE BELIEVED TO BE CARBONACEOUS ASTEROIDS. FURTHERMORE THIS WORK IS RELEVANT TO THE SOLAR SYSTEM WORKINGS PROGRAM AS IT SEEKS TO UNDERSTAND PROCESSES THAT OCCUR THROUGHOUT THE SOLAR SYSTEM AND WILL CONSIST OF LABORATORY STUDIES THAT EXAMINE PHYSICAL OR CHEMICAL PROPERTIES AND PROCESSES THAT MAY BE IMPORTANT FOR THE CARBONACEOUS ASTEROIDS PRESENT IN OUR SOLAR SYSTEM. | 2023-08-01 → 2027-07-31 | $602K |
| 80NSSC19K0550 | BACKGROUND: REMOTE COMPOSITIONAL INVESTIGATIONS IN THE THERMAL INFRARED WAVELENGTH REGION (E.G. 6-50M) HAVE LONG RELIED UPON THE ASSUMPTION OF LINEAR MIXING OF ENDMEMBER RADIANT ENERGY TO DETERMINE SURFACE MINERALOGY. VARIATIONS OF THIS TECHNIQUE HAVE BEEN SUCCESSFULLY APPLIED TO PLANETARY SURFACE INVESTIGATIONS AND IN THE LABORATORY. HOWEVER THE VALIDATION OF THIS CRITICAL ASSUMPTION HAS RELIED UPON A SURPRISINGLY SMALL NUMBER OF STUDIES [E.G. RAMSEY AND CHRISTENSEN 1998; FEELY AND CHRISTENSEN 1999; HAMILTON AND CHRISTENSEN 2000; WYATT ET AL. 2001] AND THE FULL PARAMETER SPACE UNCERTAINTIES AND ULTIMATE MINERAL ABUNDANCE RETRIEVAL ACCURACIES HAVE BEEN INSUFFICIENTLY EXPLORED. THIS IS IN LARGE PART DUE TO THE FACT THAT IT IS NOT PRACTICAL TO TEST THE LIMITS OF LINEAR MIXING PURELY IN THE LABORATORY AS MULTI-COMPONENT MIXTURES AS COMPLICATED SURFACES CANNOT BE READILY CONSTRUCTED. SIMILARLY SIMULATING SPECTRA VIA NUMERICAL MODELING OF REPRESENTATIVE (MULTI-COMPONENT LAYERED ETC.) MIXTURES HAS PROVED TO BE A SIGNIFICANT CHALLENGE DUE TO THE COMPLEX NATURE OF MODELS AND THE TYPICAL REQUIREMENT OF OPTICAL CONSTANTS AS MODEL INPUTS. TO DATE THERE HAS BEEN NO COMPREHENSIVE STUDY TO INVESTIGATE THE LIMITATIONS OF LINEAR SPECTRAL UNMIXING AND MINERAL ABUNDANCE RETRIEVALS IN TERMS OF COMPLEX MIXTURES OF MINERALS AND SIZE FRACTIONS. METHODOLOGY: IN THIS WORK WE PROPOSE TO TEST THE LIMITS OF MINERAL ABUNDANCE RETRIEVALS IN THE THERMAL INFRARED THROUGH MULTIPLE APPROACHES ENABLED BY BOTH LABORATORY STUDIES AND RADIATIVE TRANSFER MODELING. THIS ULTIMATE GOAL IS ACHIEVED BY FOUR DISTINCT TASKS: TASK 1. ACQUIRE THERMAL INFRARED EMISSION SPECTRA OF A SUITE OF MINERAL MIXTURES IN THE LABORATORY TASK 2. VALIDATE A NOVEL RADIATIVE TRANSFER MONTE CARLO EMISSION MODEL IN ORDER TO SIMULATE MINERAL MIXTURES TASK 3. EXPLORE PARTICLE SIZE LIMITATIONS OF THE RADIATIVE TRANSFER MONTE CARLO EMISSION MODEL TASK 4. GENERATE SYNTHETIC MODEL MIXTURES TO TEST MINERAL ABUNDANCE RETRIEVAL UNCERTAINTIES USING WELL-ESTABLISHED TECHNIQUES IN THE PLANETARY SCIENCE COMMUNITY RELEVANCE: THIS PROPOSAL IS DIRECTLY RELEVANT TO THE SOLAR SYSTEM WORKINGS PROGRAM AS IT SEEKS TO ENABLE OUR ABILITY TO BETTERCHARACTERIZE AND UNDERSTAND THE CHEMICAL MINERALOGICAL AND PHYSICAL FEATURES OF PLANETARY SURFACES AND MORE SPECIFICALLY DEVELOPS THETHEORETICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL BASES FOR UNDERSTANDING THESE FEATURES ON PLANETARY SURFACES. BY REFINING THE LIMITS OF THE COMMONLY USED LINEARMIXTURE MODELING WE ENABLE A RE-EVALUATION OF SPACECRAFT DATA RETURN FROM MULTIPLE PAST MISSIONS (E.G. MARS GLOBAL SURVEYOR MARS ODYSSEY LUNAR RECONNAISSANCE ORBITER) AS WELL AS FUTURE MISSIONS SUCH AS THE OSIRIS-REX AND LUCY MISSIONS. THE MODEL VALIDATED AS A PART OF THIS WORK SERVES TO FURTHER ENABLE THE REFINEMENT OF FUTURE MINERAL ABUNDANCE RETRIEVAL TECHNIQUES INCLUDING PARTIAL-LEAST SQUARES FITTING AND MAY IN FACT ITSELF BE USED TO RETRIEVE MINERAL ABUNDANCES ASSUMING THERMAL GRADIENTS ARE COMMON TO AIRLESS BODIES. WHILE THIS WORK FOCUSES ON THE LINEAR-MIXTURE MODELING TECHNIQUES THAT ARE WIDELY APPLIED TO MARS AND EARTH THE VALIDATION. | 2019-02-22 → 2024-02-21 | $469K |
| 80NSSC25K7244 | 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 | $422K |
| 80NSSC25K7438 | 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 | $369K |
| 80NSSC25K7728 | 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. | 2025-08-01 → 2028-07-31 | $339K |
| 80NSSC21K1549 | IN THIS INVESTIGATION I WILL CONSTRAIN THE LUNAR SPACE WEATHERING RATE AND THE PROCESSES THAT DOMINATE ITS FORMATION USING SEVERAL PUBLISHED REMOTE SENSING DATA PRODUCTS. | 2021-09-01 → 2023-08-31 | $90K |
| 80NSSC25K7018 | 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. | 2024-10-07 → 2026-10-06 | $89K |
| 80NSSC25K7920 | 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 | 2025-12-01 → 2028-01-31 | $48K |