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Institute for Sub-Surface Exploration
Exploratory Workshop
24 March 2005
Patio Room, NASA Conference Center

AGENDA

8:30 AM Welcome ..................................................................................Scott Hubbard
8:45 AM Introductions and purpose of workshop ......................................Greg Schmidt
  Consider the benefits of a new integrated effort in achieving our exploration goals, focusing on subsurface exploration
- Identify programmatic holes that need to be filled
- Gauge interest among players at Ames, Kentucky and our other partners
- Identify potential funding sources, both inside and beyond NASA
- Identify any near term issues/impediments
9:00 AM Background and programmatic assumptions..................................Geoff Briggs
  - Mars Express GPR, MRO GPR, MEPAG projections of future missions-over next 15 years
- Ongoing hardware developments
- Ongoing ASTID/ASTEP projects
- MARTE Project.......................................................................... Carol Stoker
9:45 AM Potential components of an integrated subsurface exploration program:
  - Science (1.2 MB ppt)...........................Chris McKay, Bruce Runnegar,
                                                                Susan Hubbard (LBL)

- Contamination/Planetary Protection.................Chris McKay, Margaret Race
- Drilling Mechanics (8.6 MB ppt)...................... Kris Zacny, Mahendra Jain
- Automation ......................................................... Brian Glass, Geoff Briggs
- Instrumentation.......................................................Chris McKay, Tom Daley
- Full Scale Testing.(8.6 MB ppt)...................................................... Ken Galal
11:45AM Discussion and working lunch
  - Potential benefits
- Programmatic holes
- Level of interest
- Funding sources
- Near term issues/impediments
Afternoon
 1:45 PM Concluding remarks...........................Greg Schmidt ,Kris Kimel ,Geoff Briggs

 


Responsible NASA Official: Greg Schmidt
Curator: Lockheed Martin