Lunar Science for Landed Missions Workshop January 10-12, 2018 NASA Ames Research Center, Building 152, Main Conference Room View Posters Watch presentations on-demand by clicking the icon Time DAY 1: Wednesday, January 10 (all times PST) 8:00 AM Welcome / Logistics: Carol Carroll, Jim Green, Greg Schmidt 8:20 AM Workshop Goals / Products: Jim Green, Greg Schmidt, Clive Neal 8:50 AM Guiding Documents Session Chair: Greg SchmidtScience Brett Denevi: Advancing Science of the Moon: Progress Toward Achieving the Goals of The Scientific Context for Exploration of the Moon Report Exploration Ben Bussey: SKGs Addressed by Lunar Surface Science and ISECG Landing Sites 9:20 AM Background talks Session Chair: Clive Neal Clive Neal: Advancing Lunar and Solar System Science and Exploration Through a Lunar Sample Return Campaign (Updated) Bradley Jolliff: Landing Sites for South Pole-Aitken Basin Sample Return Renee Weber: Seismic Investigation of the Moon 10:10 AM BREAK 10:20 AM Background talks (Cont’d) Session Chair: Clive Neal Chip Shearer: Returning Treasure from the Moon: Fundamental Importance of Planetary Sample Return (SR) and Fulfilling the SCEM Goals Noah Petro: Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Data in Support of Characterizing Future Landing Sites Margaret Race: Lunar Environmental Management: Science Input Needed for Guiding Development of Lunar Exploration and Use Policies 11:20 AM Commercial Landing Opportunities Panel Session Chair: Clive Neal Moon Express: Alain Berinstain Astrobotic: Dan Hendrickson: Astrobotic Research And Development: Robotic Technologies For Lunar Science And Exploration Team Hakuto: Ryutaro Ichikawa: ispace Lunar Exploration Missions Beyond Google Lunar XPRIZE Blue Origin: A.C. Charania 12:20 PM LUNCH 1:30 PM Global Landing Opportunities Session Chair: Greg Schmidt Japan (JAXA): Junichi Haruyama: Lunar Landing Site Candidates Discussed In The Japan’s Science Community Korea (KARI): Gwanghyeok Ju ESA: James Carpenter: Lunar Missions in ESA’s Reference Exploration Roadmap 2:30 PM Current Payloads and Landing Site Selection Processes Session Chair: Greg Schmidt Rick Elphic: Near-term Instrumentation for Landed Lunar Missions John Gruener: Constellation Landing Sites: Process and Conclusions Anthony Colaprete: Resource Prospector: Mission Goals and Landing Site Constraints David Kring: Lunar Landing Sites Addressing NRC (2007) Objectives for Scientific Exploration of the Moon 3:45 PM Session Chair: Clive NealJack Schmitt: “How the Last Apollo Samples were Collected” 4:10 PM BREAK 4:20 PM Volatiles Session Chair: Carle Pieters Bill Farrell: Lunar Volatiles Network: A Ring Around the Poles Kathleen Mandt: Faustini and Slater Craters: PSRs containing Geologically Young Craters Shuai Li: Landing at Ice Exposures in the Lunar Polar Regions Clive Neal: Science Enables Exploration and Exploration Enables Science. Exploring the Lunar Polar Volatile Deposits Thomas Eubanks: Amundsen Crater: Access to Lunar Volatiles and Sunlit Areas on a Level Plain 5:50 PM POSTER SESSION (No-Host Beer/Wine) 7:00 PM Adjourn Time DAY 2: Thursday, January 11 (all times PST) 8:00 AM Lunar Magmatism and Volcanic Deposits #1: Pyroclastics Session Chair: Tim Glotch Lisa Gaddis: Rationale for Landing Sites at Lunar Pyroclastic Deposit Erica Jawin: The Moon's Most Explosive Eruption: The Aristarchus Plateau as a Future Exploration Destination Paul Spudis: Mission to the Rima Bode Regional Pyroclastic Deposit 8:50 AM Lunar Magmatism and Volcanic Deposits #2: Pits and Lava Tubes Session Chair: Tim Glotch Mark Robinson: Lunar Pits – Gateway to the Subsurface Laura Kerber: Exploring Pit Craters to Understand the Lunar Maria Pascal Lee: Philolaus Crater: Exploring Candidate Lava Tubes and Skylights near the Lunar North Pole 9:40 AM BREAK 9:50 AM Lunar Magmatism and Volcanic Deposits #3: Unusual Volcanism Session Chair: Lisa Gaddis Robert Wagner: The Age of Ina and the Thermal History of the Moon Julie Stopar: Exploring Lunar Volcanism at Two Unique Mare Basalt Sites: Ina Caldera and the Marius Hills Volcanic Complex Timothy Glotch: The Aristarchus Plateau: Surface Analysis and Sample Return of Pyroclastic and Silicic Lithologies James Head: Lunar Non-mare Volcanism: the Role of Commercial Missions in the Exploration of the Gruithuisen Domes 11:00 AM Age Dating and Impact Processes #1: Solar System Chronology Session Chair: Debra Needham Samuel Lawrence: Sampling the Youngest Lunar Basalts David Kring: Landing at Lunar Impact Craters and Impact Basins to Determine the Bombardment of Ancient Earth Mark Robinson: Chronos Program: Unraveling the Bombardment History of the Inner Solar System Barbara Cohen: The Onset of the Cataclysm: In Situ Dating of a Nearside Basin Impact Melt Sheet F. Scott Anderson: Using Young Aristarchus Basalts to Constrain Inner Solar System History 12:30 PM LUNCH 1:45 PM Age Dating and Impact Processes #2: Basins and Impact Processes Session Chair: David Kring Debra Needham: Exploring Lacus Veris, Orientale to Probe the Volcanic and Impact Histories of the Moon James Head: Lunar Orientale Basin: Commercial Spacecraft in a Human/Robotic Exploration Design Reference Campaign for Crustal Evolution James Cassanelli: Impact Melt Sheet Composition, Age and Igneous Differentiation?: Commercial Mission Goals Daniel Moriarty: South Pole – Aitken Sample Return: Insights from Moon Mineralogy Mapper Data Jennifer Whitten: Exploring the Volcanic and Impact Histories of the Moon through Analyses of Material in Western Orientale Basin 3:15 PM Lightning Round Talks (10 poster presenters @ 2 mins each) 3:35 PM BREAK 3:50 PM Crust and Dust Benjamin Greenhagen: The Moscoviense Basin: A Microcosm of Crustal Compositional Diversity Jack Wilson: Kilometer-scale Regions of Primordial Flotation Crust may be Accessible in Hertzsprung Basin Xu Wang: In-situ Measurements of Electrostatically Lofted Dust on the Lunar Surface Brian O’Brien: Towards Risk Management of Movements of Fine Dust on Surface of Moon: Reality Checks from Apollo 11 to Chang'e-3/4 5:00 PM Commercial Landing Opportunities Panel #2 Rolf Erdmann: NEXT STOP: APOLLO 17 Re-visiting the Taurus-Littrow ValleyContinuing the Apollo Legacy Adithya Kothandhapani: Commercial Lunar Landing & Exploration Technologies Sean Mahoney: Masten: Get your Science on the Moon Michael Sims (Ceres Robotics, Inc. ) 5:30 PM POSTER SESSION (No-Host Beer/Wine) 7:00 PM Adjourn Time DAY 3: Friday, January 12 (all times PST) 8:00 AM Geophysics / Astrophysics Session Chair: Renee Weber Jack Burns: The Lunar Farside: A Science and Exploration Imperative Orlando Luongo: Georeferencing of Landers/Rovers, Test of General Relativity, Metrics of Lunar Interior with Laser Retroreflectors Seiichi Nagihara: In-situ Heat Flow Measurements in the Maria Outside the Procellarum KREEP Terrane Matthew Siegler: Lunar Global Heat Flow: Predictions and Constraints 9:10 AM Magnetism / Swirls Session Chair: Dave Blewett Georgiana Kramer: Priority Lunar Mission Target: The Lunar Swirls at Ingenii David Blewett: Landed Science at a Lunar Crustal Magnetic Anomaly Carle Pieters: Reiner Gamma Swirl: A Remarkable Science and (Partially?) Safe-Haven Nearside Site 10:00 AM BREAK 10:20 AM Poster Discussion: Clive Neal and Greg Schmidt Workshop Findings: Ryan Watkins, Sarah Valencia, Erica Jawin, Jim Crowell 10:45 AM Final Panel Discussion: Jim Green, Sarah Noble, Ben Bussey, Clive Neal, Greg Schmidt 11:30 AM Discussion on top recommended sites 11:55 AM Final remarks 12:00 PM Adjourn (safe travels!)