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Tore Straume	Solar Radiation Output: Reading the Record of Lunar Rocks	Reconstructing solar energetic particle output by measuring signatures in lunar surface samples	Inner Planets: Mercury, Venus, and the Moon.	NASA Ames Research Center	Download File More Details
Michael R. Collier Co-Authors: Thomas E. Cravens, Mats Holmstrom, James Burch, Konrad Dennerl, Herbert Gunell, David G. Sibeck, Steven Snowden, F. Scott Porter, Ina P. Robertson, Nick Omidi, Kip Kuntz, Steven Sembay, Jennifer Carter, Andrew Read, Dimitra Koutroumpa, Massimiliano Galeazzi, Susan Lepri, K.C. Hansen, Dan McCammon, Ruth Skoug, H. Kent Hills, Timothy J. Stubbs, Pavel M. Travnicek, George Fraser, Mark Lester	Global Imaging of Solar Wind-Planetary Body Interactions using Soft X-ray Cameras	We show in this white paper that, with suitable instrumentation on planetary and terrestrial spacecraft, soft X-ray emission associated with the solar wind interaction with planetary neutral atoms can map out the solar wind distribution around planets, including the locations of plasma boundaries.	Inner Planets: Mercury, Venus, and the Moon.	NASA Goddard Space Flight Center	Download File More Details
James B. Garvin Co-Authors: Lori S. Glaze, Sushil Atreya, Bruce Campbell, Don Campbell, Peter Ford, Walter Kiefer, Frank Lemoine, Greg Neumann, Roger Phillips, Keith Raney	Venus: Constraining Crustal Evolution from Orbit Via High-Resolution Geophysical and Geological Reconnaissance	Major gaps in understanding Venus include how planetary-scale crustal resurfacing operated, the formation and evolution of highlands, and whether evidence of past environments is preserved. These questions can be addressed through an orbiting radar altimeter and high resolution SAR imager.	Inner Planets: Mercury, Venus, and the Moon.	NASA Goddard Space Flight Center	Download File More Details
Stephen M. Merkowitz Co-Authors: Edward Aaron, Neil Ashby, David Carrier, Douglas Currie, John J. Degnan, Simone Dell’Agnello, Giovanni Delle Monache, Jan McGarry, Thomas W. Murphy, Jr., Kenneth Nordtvedt, Robert D. Reasenberg, Slava G. Turyshev, James G. Williams, Thomas Zagwodzki	The Moon as a Test Body for General Relativity	This whitepaper describes how the next generation of lunar laser ranging addresses four key gravitational science questions. In addition, we discuss the current state of retroreflector technology and describe ways in which further advances can be made in laser ranging technologies.	Inner Planets: Mercury, Venus, and the Moon.	NASA Goddard Space Flight Center	Download File More Details
W. M. Farrell Co-Author: Mihaly Horanyi	The Lunar Dusty Exosphere: The Extreme Case of an Inner Planetary Atmosphere	The Moon is an extreme type of atmosphere – a surface bounded exosphere – and may represent the final ‘ground state’ of any geologically dormant body. Neutral gas and dust are emitted from its surface via universal processes believed to be occurring at all near-airless bodies.	Inner Planets: Mercury, Venus, and the Moon.	NASA Goddard Space Flight Center / University of Colorado	Download File More Details
Robert M. Kelso	A commercially-leveraged, science-focused, lunar exploration program	Summarizes the NASA work in assessing use of commercially-demonstrated landers and comm systems to enable early access to the lunar surface for science and exploration.	Inner Planets: Mercury, Venus, and the Moon.	NASA Headquarters	Download File More Details
Mian. M. Abbas Co-Authors: A.C. LeClair, D. Tankosic, D.L. Gallagher, R.B. Sheldon, E.A. West, J.C. Brasunas, D.E. Jennings	Global Distributions of Gas & Dust in the Lunar Atmosphere from Solar Infrared Absorption Measurements with a Fourier Transform Spectrometer	Global Distributions of Dust & Gas in the Lunar Atmosphere may be determined most accurately with the highly sensitive technique of measurements of Solar IR Absorptions with a Infrared Spectrometer on a Lunar Orbiter, in full compliance with the NRC goal of measurements of Global Distributions.	Inner Planets: Mercury, Venus, and the Moon.	NASA Marshall Space Flight Center	Download File More Details
Mian M. Abbas Co-Authors: A.C. LeClair, D. Tankosic, P.D. Craven, J.F. Spann, E.A. West	Importance of Measurements of Charging Properties of Individual Submicron Size Lunar Dust Grains	It is absolutely necessary and of utmost importance to conduct the proposed measurements of charging properties of individual Apollo 11-17 submicron size dust grains by UV radiation and electron impact, at the lunar thermal cycle, for developing any believable lunar dust transportation models.	Inner Planets: Mercury, Venus, and the Moon.	NASA Marshall Space Flight Center	Download File More Details
William F. Bottke Co-Authors: Carlton Allen, Mahesh Anand, Nadine Barlow, Donald Bogard, Gwen Barnes, Clark Chapman, Barbara A. Cohen, Ian A. Crawford, Andrew Daga, Luke Dones, Dean Eppler, Vera Assis Fernandes, Bernard H. Foing, Lisa R. Gaddis, Jim N. Head, Fredrick P. Horz, Brad Jolliff, Christian Koeberl, Michelle Kirchoff, David Kring, Harold F., Levison, Simone Marchi, Charles Meyer, David A. Minton, Stephen J. Mojzsis, Clive Neal, Laurence E. Nyquist, David Nesvorny, Anne Peslier, Noah Petro, Carle Pieters, Jeff Plescia, Mark Robinson, Greg Schmidt, Sen. Harrison H. Schmitt, John Spray, Sarah Stewart-Mukhopadhyay, Timothy Swindle, Lawrence Taylor, Ross Taylor, Mark Wieczorek, Nicolle Zellner, Maria Zuber	Exploring the Bombardment History of the Moon	We discuss our priorities for exploring the Moon''s bombardment history: (1) Test the idea of a massive impactor spike 3.8-4.0 billion years ago. (2) Anchor the early Earth-Moon impact flux curve by determining the age of South Pole-Aitken Basin. (3) Establish a precise absolute chronology.	Inner Planets: Mercury, Venus, and the Moon.	Southwest Research Institute	Download File More Details
Mark A. Bullock Co-Authors: David A. Senske, Tibor. S. Balint, Alexis Benz, Bruce A. Campbell, Eric Chassefiere, Anthony Colaprete, James A. Cutts, Lori Glaze, Stephen Gorevan, David H. Grinspoon, Jeff Hall, George L. Hashimoto, James W. Head, Gary Hunter, Natasha Johnson, Viktor V. Kerzhanovich, Walter S. Kiefer, Elizabeth A. Kolawa, Tibor Kremic, Johnny Kwok, Sanjay S. Limaye, Stephen J. Mackwell, Mikhail Y. Marov, Adriana Ocampo, Gerald Schubert, Ellen R. Stofan, Hakan Svedhem, Dimitri V. Titov, Allen H. Treiman	The Venus Science and Technology Definition Team Flagship	This white paper describes the scientific goals, objectives, instruments and mission architecture and design for a Flagship class mission to Venus.	Inner Planets: Mercury, Venus, and the Moon.	Southwest Research Institute	Download File More Details
Amalie Sinclair	Lunar Light -Planetary Renewal- A Holistic Viewpoint	This paper sets out some rationales for an integrated US space development platform within the UN forums . Such a platform might include for an international lunar settlement and for a related space sciences initiative into global development	Inner Planets: Mercury, Venus, and the Moon.	Space for Progress	Download File More Details
Krishan Khurana Co-Authors: V. Angelopoulos, Charles W. Carlson, Gregory T. Delory, William M. Farrell, Robert E. Grimm, Ian Garrick-Bethell, Jasper S. Halekas, L. L. Hood, M. Horanyi, Robert J.Lillis, Robert P. Lin, Clive R. Neal, M. E. Purucker, Chris T. Russell, Gerry Schubert, D. G. Sibeck, Pavel Travnicek	Lunar Science with ARTEMIS: A Journey from the Moon’s Exosphere to its Core [version 2]	This white paper describes the planetary science objectives to be achieved by ARTEMIS, a two-spacecraft constellation en route to the Moon, and presents recommendations pertaining to future lunar science. [version 2]	Inner Planets: Mercury, Venus, and the Moon.	IGPP/UCLA	Download File More Details
Sue Smrekar Co-Author: Sanjay Limaye	Venus Exploration Goals, Objectives, Investigations, and Priorities	This white paper describes the science priorities developed by the Venus Exploration Analysis Group, through a series of meetings with the Venus science community. The science themes for Venus are Origin and Evolution, Venus as a Terrestrial Planet, and Climate Change and the Future of Earth.	Inner Planets: Mercury, Venus, and the Moon.	Jet Propulsion Laboratory	Download File More Details
James G. Williams Co-Authors: James G. Williams, Slava G. Turyshev, Richard T. Baran, Kevin M. Birnbaum, Douglas Currie, William M. Folkner, Gary M. Gutt, Hideo Hanada, Hamid Hemmati, Stephen M. Merkowitz,, Kenneth L. Nordtvedt, Thomas W. Murphy, Jr., Jürgen Müller, Nicolas Rambaux, Peter J. Shelus, Ruwan Somawardhana, Robert Spero	Lunar Science and Lunar Laser Ranging	Lunar Laser Ranging studies the Moon’s internal structure and properties by tracking the variations in the orientation and tidal distortion of the Moon as a function of time. Future missions to the Moon’s surface should include new laser ranging instrumentation capable of improved range accuracy.	Inner Planets: Mercury, Venus, and the Moon.	Jet Propulsion Laboratory	Download File More Details
Dana M. Hurley Co-Authors: David J. Lawrence, Raul Baragiola, D. Benjamin Bussey, Anthony Colaprete, M. Darby Dyar, Anthony F. Egan, Richard C. Elphic, William Farrell, William Feldman, James R. Gaier, Jacob Grimes, Jasper S. Halekas, Erika Harnett, James N. Head, Jennifer Heldmann, Amanda Hendrix, Charles A. Hibbitts, Kurt D. Retherford, Catherine Neish, Sarah Noble, Carle Pieters, Paul D. Spudis, Timothy J. Stubbs, Bradley J. Thomson, Kris Zacny	Lunar Polar Volatiles and Associated Processes	A landed/mobile mission to a lunar permanently shadowed region (PSR) should identify the composition, abundance, and distribution of volatiles in lunar PSRs. The next step is obtaining a detailed understanding of the transport/deposition/retention system to unravel the history of polar volatiles.	Inner Planets: Mercury, Venus, and the Moon.	Johns Hopkins University/ Applied Physics Laboratory	Download File More Details
Kevin H. Baines Co-Authors: Sushil Atreya, Tibor Balint, David Crisp, David Grinspoon, Jeffery L. Hall, Gary W. Hunter, Sanjay Limaye, Viktor Kerzhanovich, Paul R. Mahaffy, Christopher T. Russell, David Senske, Stuart K. Stephens, Chris R. Webster	Venus Atmospheric Explorer New Frontiers Mission Concept	A multiple-platform mission to Venus that includes a long-duration, circumnavigating balloon-based element, two drop sondes, and an orbiter, is described that directly addresses fundamental science iissues of planetary formation/evolution, dynamics/circulation, chemistry, meteorology, and geology.	Inner Planets: Mercury, Venus, and the Moon.	Jet Propulsion Laboratory	Download File More Details
Tibor Balint Co-Authors: James Cutts, Mark Bullock, James Garvin, Stephen Gorevan, Jeffery Hall, Peter Hughes, Gary Hunter, Satish Khanna, Elizabeth Kolawa, Viktor Kerzhanovich, Ethiraj Venkatapathy	Technologies for Future Venus Exploration	This VEXAG community white paper covers both heritage, and key enhancing and enabling technologies, which are required for future Venus exploration missions in all three mission classes. It also argues for a targeted technology development program, including a large environmental test chamber.	Inner Planets: Mercury, Venus, and the Moon.	Jet Propulsion Laboratory	Download File More Details
Marc Fries Co-Authors: John Armstrong, James Ashley, Luther Beegle, Timothy Jull, Glenn Sellar	Extralunar Materials in Lunar Regolith	This paper describes the scientific rationale for locating and studying extralunar material found in lunar regolith. The extreme age and lack of weathering of lunar regolith make it a natural repository for samples from a wide range of parent bodies and across a vast span of solar system history.	Inner Planets: Mercury, Venus, and the Moon.	Jet Propulsion Laboratory	Download File More Details
Ariel D. Anbar Co-Authors: David Grinspoon, Sean C. Solomon, G. Jeffrey Taylor	Astrobiology Research Priorities for Mercury, Venus, and the Moon	This paper describes the value of exploration of Mercury, Venus and the Moon for the field of astrobiology and specifies high priority goals.	Inner Planets: Mercury, Venus, and the Moon.	Arizona State University	Download File More Details
Sarah E. Braden Co-Authors: Samuel J. Lawrence, Mark S. Robinson, Bradley L. Jolliff, Julie D. Stopar, Lillian R. Ostrach, Lisa R. Gaddis, Justin J. Hagerty, Steven B. Simon, B. Ray Hawke	Unexplored Areas of the Moon: Nonmare Domes	Analysis of samples returned from unexplored areas of lunar volcanism such as the Gruithuisen Domes will (1) increase our knowledge of the history of the Earth-Moon system, (2) advance theories of lunar magmatic evolution and (3) provide valuable points of comparison with other terrestrial planets.	Inner Planets: Mercury, Venus, and the Moon.	Arizona State University	Download File More Details

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