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Future Planetary Exploration: Four Ideas to Bust the Floor on Outer Planet Mission Costs
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Results of Past Polls. Monday, March 23, 2015. Four Ideas to Bust the Floor on Outer Planet Mission Costs. In 1972 and 1973, NASA launched two simple spacecraft, Pioneer 10 and 11, to Jupiter. They were charged with scouting the way for the more sophisticated spacecraft that would follow. Since then, the outer solar system has been the realm of large, expensive missions: the Voyagers, Galileo, and Cassini. To Pluto and the $1.1B Juno mission en route. Enceladus so far is unique in having plumes of water ...
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Future Planetary Exploration: Results of Past Polls
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Results of Past Polls. Results of Past Polls. The following three polls related to the Decadal Survey and closed March 2011. Which Larger Flagship Mission Do You Think the Decadal Survey Should Pick? Uranus Orbiter with probe. Titan Saturn System Mission. Which smaller Flagship mission do you think the Decadal Survey should pick? Which New Frontiers missions do you think the Decadal Survey should prioritize? Trojan Tour and Rendezvous. Lunar Polar Volatiles Explorer. Mars Polar Climate Mission. View my c...
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Future Planetary Exploration: Mission to a Metallic World: A Discovery Proposal to Fly to the Asteroid Psyche
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Results of Past Polls. Tuesday, February 18, 2014. Mission to a Metallic World: A Discovery Proposal to Fly to the Asteroid Psyche. Imagine flying deep within the asteroid belt to study the most unreachable location in the solar system: the deep core of a terrestrial world. That will be one asteroid mission that will be proposed for NASA’s upcoming competition to select its next Discovery mission to explore the solar system. When I first began reading about the solar system several decades ago, comets we...
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Future Planetary Exploration: Understanding why our most Earth-like neighbor, Venus, is so different
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Results of Past Polls. Saturday, March 7, 2015. Understanding why our most Earth-like neighbor, Venus, is so different. Cover page for the EnVision proposal. The European selection process tends to be more open than the U.S. process, and the EnVision team led by Dr. Richard Ghail at Imperial College London shared a copy of their proposal to ESA with me. While EnVision is out for this current M4 contest, reviewing its proposal can still let us see what type of Venus mapping missions are being proposed....
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Using an Australian Mars Analogue Research Facility for Astrobiology, Education and Outreach. Lainge, Clarke, Deckert, Gostin, Hoogland, Lemke, Leyden, Mann, Murohy, Stoker, Thomas, Waldie, Walter, West. A Detailed Analysis of the HD 73526 2:1 Resonant Planetary System. Discovery of the Y1 Dwarf WISE J064723.23-623235.5. J Davy Kirkpatrick, Michael C. Cushing, Christopher R. Gelino, Charles A. Beichman, C. G. Tinney, Jacqueline K. Faherty, Adam Schneider, Gregory N. Mace (2014). Kennedy, G. M., W...Cob g...
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Aug 2, 2016: Australian Researchers and Students partner with India to study a Mars Analogue Sites in the Himalayas. Read the media release here. Read more about Aug 2, 2016: Australian Researchers and Students partner with India to study a Mars Analogue Sites in the Himalayas. May 12, 2016: Fossilised space dust offers startling insight into our ancient atmosphere. Read more about May 12, 2016: Fossilised space dust offers startling insight into our ancient atmosphere. April 24, 2016: New view of Venus!
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2020 Landing Site for Mars Rover Mission
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California Institute of Technology. 2nd Landing Site Workshop for the 2020 Mars Rover mission. Letter describing the downselected sites. Final Workshop Letter describing the outcome of the 2nd Mars 2020 landing site workshop. Ranked landing sites, based on science discussion at 2nd Landing Site Workshop (votes collected at end of workshop, August 6). Second Landing Site Workshop Agenda. Tuesday, August 4, 2015. Welcome, Opening Remarks, Logistics (10 mins). M Meyer, J. Grant, M. Golombek. Recurring Slope...
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Future Planetary Exploration: PriME/MASPEX and Updates
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Results of Past Polls. Saturday, August 6, 2011. I'll cover the updates first. Aviation Week and Space Technology (AWST) has had a series of good articles on planetary exploration and space science in the last two issues. (Unfortunately, most require a subscription.) Amy Svitak, formerly with Space News, now writes for AWST, and continues her excellent coverage of policy issues there. First some background on mass spectrometers, which are workhorse instruments in many laboratories and on many spacecraft&...
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Future Planetary Exploration: Correction: No descent camera on the Mars 2020 rover
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Results of Past Polls. Wednesday, August 5, 2015. Correction: No descent camera on the Mars 2020 rover. Since I published my short update on the Mars 2020 plans. I've learned that the current plans for the mission do not include a descent imager. As a result, there currently will not be the equivalent to the descent movie made for the Curiosity landing. I apparently misunderstood a point on an earlier presentation I read. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Reviewing the Discovery Mission Proposals.
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PhD Students | Australian Centre for Astrobiology
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I’m interested in studying microfossils and stromatolites, and am currently working on the adaptation of life to the Great Oxidation Event,. More. Brett Biddington owns his own Canberra-based consulting firm which focuses on space and cyber-space policy, security and industry. More. I am currently a postgrad student working with Jeremy Bailey in the astrophysics department of UNSW. My research focuses on the. More. Achilton@student.unsw.edu.au. Mdavie@student.unsw.edu.au. Vicki Lowe is completing her PhD...
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