A Special Session at the Fall AGU 2004 devoted to grass-roots dialogue about how the Space Physics Community can support the Exploration Initiative

This session explores various methods that can enable, define, and support the NASA priority emphasizing a robust exploration program. The session invites contributions that (1) summarize our current understanding of the Moon and Mars and their space environments (2) outline science opportunities that might be enabled by this renewed focus on these bodies and/or (3) discuss the hazards of and the availability and utilization of resources that are important for exploration of the Moon and, eventually, Mars. We solicit reports of theoretical investigations and data analysis. We also solicit contributions that focus on novel experimental techniques. A companion session, SH13, specifically solicits presentations on space weather-related hazards to astronauts. The proposed exploration goals are aggressive and far-reaching, requiring a complete understanding of the lunar and, ultimately, the Martian space environments, their potential resources, and hazards.

As is apparent to most, science assessment is a critical part of risk assessment...

Example Topics

• X-ray, gamma ray and neutron mapping of the Moon's surface
• What can solar wind composition tell us about the Moon?
• Importance of electric fields at the Moon and Mars
• The impact of the Moon's radiation environment on electronics and the surface
• Magnetic field anomalies
• Results from Lunar Prospector and other recent missions and implications for exploration
• Solar wind implantation of H and extracting it to make water
• Laboratory results of sputtering of lunar material
• Lunar pickup ions
• Interaction of the Moon and the solar wind
• Radio plasma sounding from the Moon

Supplementary Material

• Mars Aeronomy Science Themes and the NASA Exploration Initiative Bruce Jakosky

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Oral Session SH54A - Friday 17 December 2004 - location MCC 2004

16:00-16:15	SH54A-01	Lin, R.P., D. Mitchell, R. Lillis and J. Halekas		Magnetic Mapping of the Moon and Mars Using Electron Reflection Magnetometry
16:15-16:30	SH54A-02	Holmstrom, Mats and S. Barabash		Exploring the Moon and Mars solar wind interaction using energetic neutral atoms
16:30-16:45	SH54A-03	Delory, Gregory T., C. Zeitlin, J.G. Luhmann, C. Gorguinpour, D.A. Brain, C.O. Lee, and D. Mitchell		Radiation and the Exploration of the Moon and Mars: Current Knowledge, Challenges, and Required Measurements
16:45-17:00	SH54A-04	Horanyi, Mihaly, J.E. Colwell, and S.H. Robertson		Dusty Plasma Effects on the surfaces of the Moon and Mars
17:00-17:15	SH54A-05	Jakosky, B.M., S. Bougher, R. Gladstone, J. Grebowsky, R. Heelis, J. Trosper, A. Yau, and R. Zurek		Mars Aeronomy Science Themes and the NASA Exploration Initiative
17:15-17:30	SH54A-06	Zurbuchen, Thomas H., S. Scherer, J.W. Keller, R. Baragiola, M. Collier, G. Gloeckler, R. Hartle, R.E. Johnson, R. Killen, P. Koehn, R. Lin, and K. Ogilvie		Lunar surface and atmosphere analysis through in situ pickup ions
17:30-17:45	SH54A-07	Gladstone, Randy, A. Stern, K. Retherford, R. Black, J. Scherrer, D. Slater, J. Stone, P. Feldman, and D. Crider		The Lyman-Alpha Mapping Project (LAMP)
17:45-18:00	SH54A-08	Grande, Manuel and B. Kellett		Latest Results from the DCIXS X-ray spectrometer on the SMART-1 ESA mission to the Moon

Poster Session SH51B - Friday Morning (08:00) 17 December 2004 - location MCC level 1

1	SH51B-0271	Cassidy, Timothy A., R.E. Hartle, and R.M. Killen		Measuring Pickup Ions to Characterize the Lunar Surface and Exosphere
2	SH51B-0272	Levine, Jonathan, T.A. Becker, R.A. Muller and P.R. Renne		Apollo 12 Glass Spherule Ages and the Meteoroid Bombardment History of the Moon
3	SH51B-0273	Futaana, Yoshifumi, S. Barabash, M. Holmstrom, and A. Bhardwaj		Low Energetic Neutral Atom (LENA) imaging of the Moon
4	SH51B-0274	Travnicek, Pavel, P. Hellinger, D. Schriver, M. Ashour-Abdalla, and S.D. Bale		Structure of the Moon's Wake-Tail under different IMF conditions: Hybrid simulations
5	SH51B-0275	Stubbs, Timothy J., R.R. Vondrak, and W.M. Farrell		Impact of Lunar Dust on the Exploration Initiative
6	SH51B-0276	Saito, Yoshifumi, S. Yokota, K. Asamura, and T. Mukai		Low Energy Charged Particle Measurement by Japanese Lunar Orbiter SELENE
7	SH51B-0277	Halekas, Jasper S.		Large Negative Lunar Surface Potentials

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Invited Speakers

Speakers:

Dr. Greg Delory	Radiation and the Exploration of the Moon and Mars: Current Knowledge, Challenges, and Required Measurements
Dr. Mats Holmstrom	Mapping the Moon and Mars solar wind interactions using energetic neutral atoms
Dr. Mihaly Horanyi	Dusty Plasma Effects on the surfaces of the Moon and Mars
Dr. Bob Lin	Magnetic Mapping of the Moon and Mars Using Electron Reflection Magnetometry

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Abstracts - Alphabetical

Cassidy, Timothy A.		Measuring Pickup Ions to Characterize the Lunar Surface and Exosphere
Delory, Gregory T.		Radiation and the Exploration of the Moon and Mars: Current Knowledge, Challenges, and Required Measurements
Futaana, Yoshifumi		Low Energetic Neutral Atom (LENA) imaging of the Moon
Gladstone, Randy		The Lyman-Alpha Mapping Project (LAMP)
Grande, Manuel		Latest Results from the DCIXS X-ray spectrometer on the SMART-1 ESA mission to the Moon
Halekas, Jasper S.		Large Negative Lunar Surface Potentials
Holmstrom, Mats		Exploring the Moon and Mars solar wind interaction using energetic neutral atoms
Horanyi, Mihaly		Dusty Plasma Effects on the surfaces of the Moon and Mars
Jakosky, B.M.		Mars Aeronomy Science Themes and the NASA Exploration Initiative
Levine, Jonathan		Apollo 12 Glass Spherule Ages and the Meteoroid Bombardment History of the Moon
Lin, R.P.		Magnetic Mapping of the Moon and Mars Using Electron Reflection Magnetometry
Saito, Yoshifumi		Low Energy Charged Particle Measurement by Japanese Lunar Orbiter SELENE
Stubbs, Timothy J.		Impact of Lunar Dust on the Exploration Initiative
Travnicek, Pavel		Structure of the Moon's Wake-Tail under different IMF conditions: Hybrid simulations
Zurbuchen, Thomas H.		Lunar surface and atmosphere analysis through in situ pickup ions

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Important Dates:

• November 4, 2004 - Preregistration Deadline (save 50 US$ by registering early - click here for website)
• November 4, 2004 - AGU Hotel Rate Reservation Deadline (reservations require credit card deposit - click here for website)
• November 11, 2004 - Deadline for higher-rate registration (after November 11, 2004, registration must be done on-site - click here for website)
• December 13-17, 2004 - Fall Meeting in San Francisco

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Conveners:

• Michael R. Collier, Code 692, NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland, 20771, ph: 301-286-5256, fax: 301-286-1648, e-mail: michael.r.collier@nasa.gov
• Rosemary Killen, Department of Astronomy, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, 20742, ph: 301-405-3733, fax: 301-405-3538, e-mail: rkillen@astro.umd.edu

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Additional Links (click on text):

• Information on Fall 2004 AGU Meeting
• Listing of all Fall AGU Special Sessions

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Additional Contacts:

• Stacy Heit, Meetings Coordinator, ph: 202-777-7329, e-mail: sheit@agu.org
  • Technical support to authors submitting abstracts
  • General Fall Meeting questions
• Ellen Shortill, Program Manager, ph: 202-777-7335, e-mail: eshortill@agu.org
  • AGU policy questions
  • General Fall Meeting questions

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produced by: Michael R. Collier
created: 29 June 2004
last modified: 31 October 2004