Mission Enabling research focuses on experiments, measurements, and analog research to further interpret data returned from planetary missions and characterize geological processes on planetary bodies.
Mission Enabling research focuses on experiments, measurements, and analog research to further interpret data returned from planetary missions and characterize geological processes on planetary bodies.
Mission Enabling research focuses on experiments, measurements, and analog research to further interpret data returned from planetary missions and characterize geological processes on planetary bodies.
Research tasks in the Mission Enabling group include mineralogical and/or geochemical measurements of natural and synthetic analogs of surface materials on Mars, the Moon, and other planetary bodies. Analyses are performed on testbeds of flight instruments to develop datasets that are directly comparable to flight data and on high-resolution laboratory instruments that have no flight counterparts.
The compilation of multiple, complementary testbed instruments is a unique capability of this research group and of ARES. Research tasks also include mission database development and the curation of natural and synthetic analogs of martian and lunar crustal materials.
Research Group Leads
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Elizabeth Rampe
NASA elizabeth.b.rampe@nasa.gov |
SJ Ralston
Jacobs-JETS silas.ralston@nasa.gov |
Research Group Leads
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Elizabeth Rampe
NASA elizabeth.b.rampe@nasa.gov |
SJ Ralston
Jacobs-JETS silas.ralston@nasa.gov |
Laboratories
Publications
Click on this link to view publications that have been authored by members of the Mission Enabling Research Group.