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Final Reports:
2024
The Mysterious Interior of Uranus
doi: 10.7907/1k6kh-fjs61
Final Report
Enabling Fast Reponse Missions to Near-Earth Objects (NEOs), Interstellar Objects (ISOs), and Long-Period Comets (LPCs)
doi: 10.26206/kxcp-4561
Final Report
Towards a US Framework for Continuity of Satellite Observations of Earth’s Climate and for Supporting Societal Resilience
doi: 10.1029/2023EF003757
Final Report
2023
Venus In Situ Transfer and Analysis (VISTA)
doi: 10.26206/78tbr-5ta74
Final Report
Data-Driven Approaches to Searches for the Technosignatures of Advanced Civilizations
doi: 10.26206/gvmj-sn65
Final Report
Next-Generation Planetary Geodesy
doi: 10.7907/y1m4-ek67
Final Report
2022
Development of a Compact, All-Photonic, Dynamic Laser Frequency Comb Spectrum Flattener (Technical Development)
Final Report
Meeting with the Goddess: Venus Science Enabled by Human Proximity
Final Report
2021
Non-Nuclear Exploration of the Solar System
doi:10.7907/h62p-6328
Final Report
Revolutionizing Access to the Martian Surface
doi: 10.7907/d1smmj77
Final Report
Nebulae: Deep-Space Computing Clouds
doi:10.7907/yqde-dj03
Final Report
Societal Shifts due to COVID-19 Reveal Large-Scale Complexities and Feedbacks Between Atmospheric Chemistry and Climate Change
Final Report
Detecting Forest Response to Droughts with Global Observations of Vegetation Water Content
Final Report
Detecting Climate-Carbon Feedbacks: Next-Generation Approach for Space-Based Integration of OCS, CO
2
, and SIF
Final Report
2020
Space Science Opportunities Augmented by Exploration Telepresence
Final Report
2019
The Architecture of the LISA Science Analysis
Final Report
Tidal Heating: Lessons from Io and the Jovian System
Final Report
The Next Frontier for Planetary and Human Exploration
Final Report
2018
Unlocking the Climate Record Stored within Mars' Polar Layered Deposits
Final Report
Methane on Mars and Habitability: Challenges and Responses
Final Report
Optical Frequency Combs for Space Applications
Final Report
Techniques and Technologies for Investigating the Interior Structure of Venus (Technical Development)
Final Report
Asteroid Retrieval Technology Development From the Asteroid Return Mission Study (Technical Development)
Final Report
PhotoSpec - Measuring Solar-Induced Chlorophyll Fluorescence (Technical Development)
Final Report
Science-Driven Autonomous & Heterogeneous Robotic Networks: A Vision for Future Ocean Observations (Technical Development)
Final Report
Addressing the Mars ISRU Challenge: Production of Oxygen and Fuel from CO2 using Sunlight
Final Report
2017
Optical Communication on SmallSats: Enabling the Next Era in Space Science
Final Report
Exploring New Multi-Instrument Approaches to Observing Terrestrial Ecosystems and the Carbon Cycle from Space
Final Report
In Situ Science and Instrumentation for Primitive Bodies: Constraining the Origin of the Jupiter Trojans by in situ Measurement of Volatiles, Minerals, and Ices
(Technical Development)
Final Report
2016
Coherent Arrays for Astronomy and Remote Sensing (Technical Development)
Final Report
Planetary Magnetic Fields: Planetary Interiors and Habitability
Final Report
Next Generation UV Instrument Technologies
(Technical Development)
Final Report
Mapping the Epoch of Reionization with C+ Line Tomography
(Technical Development)
Final Report
2015
Science and Enabling Technologies to Explore the Interstellar Medium
Final Report
Bridging the Gap: Observations and Theory of Star Formation Meet on Large and Small Scales
Final Report
Gazing at the Solar System: Capturing the Evolution of Dunes, Faults, Volcanoes and Ice from Space
Final Report
Adaptive Multi-Functional Space Systems for Micro-Climate Control
Final Report
Venus Seismology
Final Report
The Sleeping Giant: Measuring Ocean Ice Interactions in Antarctica
Final Report
Satellites to the Seafloor: Autonomous Science to Forge a Breakthrough in Quantifying the Global Ocean Carbon Budget
Final Report
2014
Airships: A New Horizon for Science
Final Report
New Approaches to Lunar Ice Detection and Mapping
Final Report
Small Satellites: A Revolution in Space Science
Final Report
2013
Inferring Thermal and Mechanical Properties of Celestial Bodies Regolith Using (Simple) Low-Tech Tools
Final Report
New Methods to Measure Photosynthesis from Space
Final Report
In Situ Science and Instrumentation for Primitive Bodies
Final Report
Engineering Resilient Space Systems
Final Report
Tools and Algorithms for Sampling in Extreme Terrain
Final Report
Development of Ultrasensitive Photon Detectors and Microwave Amplifiers Using Superconducting Nitride Thin Films
(Technical Development)
Final Report
Single Photon Counting Detectors
Final Report
Robotic Exploration and Sampling of Mars
Final Summary Paper
2012
Quantum Communication, Sensing and Measurement in Space
Final Report
Asteroid Return Mission Study
Final Report
Digging Deeper: Algorithms for Computationally-Limited Searches in Astronomy
Final Report
Next Generation UV Instrument Technologies Enabling Missions in Astrophysics, Cosmology and Planetary Sciences
Final Report
xTerramechanics - Integrated Simulation of Planetary Surface Missions
Final Report
High Altitude Ballooning for Space and Atmospheric Observation
Final Report
The First Billion Years
Final Report
Quantifying the Sources and Sinks of Atmospheric CO
2
Final Report
Monitoring Earth Surface Changes from Space (Technical Development)
Final Report
Monitoring of Geoengineering Effects and their Natural and Anthropogenic Analogues
Final Report
2011
Future Missions to Titan: Scientific and Engineering Challenges
Final Report
Coherent Arrays for Astronomy and Remote Sensing
Final Report
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