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Pavilion Lake Team Explores the Deep to Learn More about Life and Science


With the end of the Shuttle program, NASA is gearing up for the future of human exploration and turning to its analog missions and field testing to help lead the way. The Pavilion Lake Research Project (PLRP) is one of NASA's premier analog research programs. The team is about to embark on its most ambitious and exciting year, which will see the addition of new scientific, operational and technological objectives to its busy ten-day field deployment.
LCROSS

Multiple LCROSS Publications in Space Science Reviews

The following papers were recently published in the journal Space Science Reviews:

1) Locating the LCROSS Impact Craters
William Marshall, Mark Shirley, Zachary Moratto, Anthony Colaprete and  
Gregory Neumann, et al. (2011)
Space Science Reviews (currently on line at http://www.springerlink.com/content/102996/)

Ames Roles on New Asteroid Mission

On May 25, NASA announced the selection of its third New Frontier planetary science mission.  The $800-million Origins-Spectral Interpretation-Resource Identification-Security-Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-Rex) mission will launch in 2016 and retrieve samples from the near-Earth asteroid 1999 RQ36 in the year 2020.  The samples will be returned to Earth in 2023 and provide samples of the primeval materials from which our Solar System formed.
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