# Presentation: 543064

## Committee on the Scientific Context for the Exploration of the Moon

**SPACE STUDIES BOARD**
**NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL**
**Santa Fe, NM**
**October 25 – 27, 2006**
**Tim Stubbs   Code 674**

## COMMITTEE MEMBERS

GEORGE A. PAULIKAS, The Aerospace Corporation (ret.), Chair
CARLÉ M. PIETERS, Brown University, Vice Chair
WILLIAM B. BANERDT, Jet Propulsion Laboratory
ANDREW CHAIKIN, Science Journalist, Arlington, Vermont
BARBARA A. COHEN, University of New Mexico 
MICHAEL DUKE, Colorado School of Mines
HARALD HIESINGER, University of Münster
NOEL W. HINNERS, Lockheed Martin Astronautics (ret.).
AYANNA M. HOWARD, Georgia Institute of Technology 
DAVID J. LAWRENCE, Los Alamos National Laboratory 
PAUL G. LUCEY, University of Hawaii 
S. ALAN STERN, Southwest Research Institute
STEFANIE TOMPKINS, Science Applications International Corporation
NEVILLE J. WOOLF, University of Arizona
JAMES BURCH, Southwest Research Institute

ROBERT L. RIEMER, Study Director
DAVID H. SMITH, Senior Staff Officer

**GEORGE A. PAULIKAS**, The Aerospace Corporation (ret.), *Chair*
**CARLÉ M. PIETERS**, Brown University, *Vice Chair*
**WILLIAM B. BANERDT**, Jet Propulsion Laboratory
**ANDREW CHAIKIN**, Science Journalist, Arlington, Vermont
**BARBARA A. COHEN**, University of New Mexico
**MICHAEL DUKE**, Colorado School of Mines
**HARALD HIESINGER**, University of Münster
**NOEL W. HINNERS**, Lockheed Martin Astronautics (ret.).
**AYANNA M. HOWARD**, Georgia Institute of Technology
**DAVID J. LAWRENCE**, Los Alamos National Laboratory
**PAUL G. LUCEY**, University of Hawaii
**S. ALAN STERN**, Southwest Research Institute
**STEFANIE TOMPKINS**, Science Applications International Corporation
**NEVILLE J. WOOLF**, University of Arizona
**JAMES BURCH**, Southwest Research Institute
**ROBERT L. RIEMER**, Study Director
**DAVID H. SMITH**, Senior Staff Officer

## COMMITTEE’S CHARTER AND PROGRESS TO DATE ...

- Study was initiated by the Space Studies Board (SSB) at the request of Mary Cleave, NASA’s associate administrator for science, on March 13, 2006.
- The National Research Council (NRC) was asked to provide guidance on the scientific challenges and opportunities enabled by a sustained program of robotic and human exploration of the Moon during the period 2008-2023+.
- So far an interim report has been released, with the primary goals of:
- 1. Identifying a common set of prioritized basic science goals that could be addressed in the near-term via the Lunar Precursor and Robotic Program (LPRP) of orbital and landed robotic lunar missions (2008-2018) and in the early phase of human lunar exploration (nominally beginning in 2018);
- 2. Suggesting, where possible, whether individual goals are most amenable to orbital measurements, in situ analysis or instrumentation, or terrestrial analysis via sample return.

## SUMMARY OF OPEN SESSION PRESENTATIONS 

**AND DISCUSSIONS**
-  Thoughts on the Vision and Lunar Science Opportunities,
**  ****Simon P. Worden**, NASA ARC
-  Feedback from NASA/SMD, **Robert Fogel** (telecon),
-   NASA SMD
-  Advanced Robotics and Telerobotics for Lunar
-   Exploration, **David Lavery**, NASA JSC
-  Dusty Plasmas on the Moon, **Timothy Stubbs**,
-   University of Maryland
-  Lunar Volatiles, **Richard R. Vondrak**, NASA GSFC
-  Science Opportunities from LRO, **Gordon Chin**,
-   NASA GSFC

## SUMMARY OF OPEN SESSION PRESENTATIONS 

**AND DISCUSSIONS**
-  The Charging Environment at the Moon,
**  ****Joseph Borovsky**, Los Alamos National Laboratory
-  Astronomy from the Moon, **Daniel Lester**,
-   University of Texas
-  Magnetospheric Measurements from the Moon,
**  ****James Burch**, Southwest Research Institute
-  Earth Remote Sensing from the Moon, **Francisco Valero**,
-   Scripps Institute of Oceanography
-  The Archean and Hadean Earth, **John Valley**,
-   University of Wisconsin