USRA Houston Repository: Recent submissions

  • Papers Presented at the Thirty-Seventh Annual Summer Intern Conference: August 10, 2022 
    Unknown author (Lunar and Planetary Institute, 2022)
    Papers Presented at the 2022 Summer Intern Program for Undergraduates held at the Lunar and Planetary Institute
  • Significance of Secondary Fe-Oxide and Fe-Sulfide Minerals in Upper Peak Ring Suevite from the Chicxulub Impact Structure 
    Kring, David A. (David Allen); Verhagen, Christina M.; Jung, Ji-In; Tikoo, Sonia M.; Wittmann, Axel 1971-; Brachfeld, Stefanie; Wu, Laying; Burns, Dale H.; Gulick, Sean P. S. (MDPI, 2023-03-02)
    The suevite (polymict melt rock-bearing breccia) composing the upper peak ring of the Chicxulub impact crater is extremely heterogeneous, containing a combination of relict clasts and secondary minerals. Using scanning ...
  • Parent body histories recorded in Rumuruti chondrite sulfides: Implications for the onset of oxidized, sulfur-rich core formation 
    Crossley, Samuel D.; Ash, Richard D.; Sunshine, Jessica M.; Corrigan, Catherine M.; McCoy, Timothy J. (Meteoritics & Planetary Science, 2023-02-27)
    Models of planetary core formation beginning with melting of Fe,Ni metal and troilite are not readily applicable to oxidized and sulfur-rich chondrites containing only trace quantities of metal. Cores formed in these bodies ...
  • 40Ar/39Ar ages of L4, H5, EL6, and feldspathic ureilitic clasts from the Almahata Sitta polymict ureilite (asteroid 2008 TC3) 
    Goodrich, Cyrena Anne; Turrin, Brent D.; Lindsay, Fara; Delaney, Jeremy S.; Park, Jisun; Herzog, Gregory F.; Swisher Jr, Carl (Meteoritics & Planetary Science, 2023-02-22)
    The Almahata Sitta (AhS) meteorite consists of disaggregated clasts from the impact of the polymict asteroid 2008 TC3, including ureilitic (70%–80%) and diverse non-ureilitic materials. We determined the 40Ar/39Ar release ...
  • Surface Energy Budget, Albedo, and Thermal Inertia at Jezero Crater, Mars, as Observed From the Mars 2020 MEDA Instrument 
    Martínez, Germán M.; Sebastián, E.; Vicente‐Retortillo, Álvaro; Smith, M. D.; Johnson, J. R.; Fischer, Erik; Savijärvi, Hannu; Toledo, D.; Hueso, Ricardo; Mora-Sotomayor, L.; Gillespie, H.; et al. (Journal of Geophysical Research. Planets, 2023-01-27)
    The Mars Environmental Dynamics Analyzer (MEDA) on board Perseverance includes first-of-its-kind sensors measuring the incident and reflected solar flux, the downwelling atmospheric IR flux, and the upwelling IR flux emitted ...
  • Science Objectives for Human Exploration of Mars Workshop report 
    Niles, Paul B.; Needham, Debra H.; Archer, D. P.; Banfield, Don J.; Beaty, D. W. (David W.); Bell, M. S.; Curry, Shannon M.; Gangidine, A.; Hill, J.; Hoffman, S.; Horgan, Briony H.; Link, B. M.; Lynch, Kennda L; Matthies, L. H.; Mischna, M. A.; Rucker. M.; Stone, B. (2023-02-03)
    The Science Objectives for Human Exploration of Mars Workshop was held in Denver, Colorado on May 4–6, 2022. The workshop was co-sponsored by NASA’s Science Mission Directorate and the Exploration Systems Development Mission ...
  • The Distribution and Accessibility of Geologic Targets near the Lunar South Pole and Candidate Artemis Landing Sites 
    Kring, David A. (David Allen); Barrett, Natasha; Bickel, Valentin Tertius; Satyakumar, Animireddi V.; Halim, Samuel; Gawronska, Aleksandra; Harish; Shah, Jahnavi; Boazman, Sarah (The Planetary Science Journal, 2022-12-22)
    Transformative lunar science will be driven by the accessibility, recovery, and return to Earth of geological specimens. Isolated boulders, rock exposures, and rocky craters at the lunar south pole all provide opportunities ...
  • 13th Planetary Crater Consortium Meeting : August 10-12, Boulder, Colorado/Virtual 
    Robbins, Stuart; Kirchoff, Michelle (Lunar and Planetary Institute, 2022-08-10)
    The annual meeting is designed to present abstracts related to observational, theoretical, experimental, and numerical modeling studies of impact craters on planets, dwarf planets, moons, asteroids, comets, or other small ...
  • Ancient Venus : July 25–26, 2022, Houston, Texas/Virtual 
    Treiman, Allan H.; Kiefer, Walter S.; Way, Michael J. (Lunar and Planetary Institute, 2022-07-25)
    Thematically, the conference will focus on four main topics, while cementing the discussion around our knowledge of ancient Venus: 1. Accretion history of Venus; 2. Evolution of the volatile inventory and climate on Venus; ...
  • Model Archive for Paper: "Tectonism and Enhanced Cryovolcanic Potential Around a Loaded Sputnik Planitia Basin, Pluto" 
    McGovern, Patrick (2021-12)
    This archive contains files used to create and plot results from the spherical shell loading models presented in the paper McGovern, P. J., O. L. White and P. M. Schenk (2021), Tectonism and Enhanced Cryovolcanic Potential ...
  • Alteration history of Séítah formation rocks inferred by PIXL x-ray fluorescence, x-ray diffraction, and multispectral imaging on Mars 
    Tice, Michael M.; Hurowitz, Joel A.; Allwood, Abigail; Jones, Michael W. M.; Orenstein, Brendan J.; Davidoff, Scott; Wright, Austin P.; Pedersen, David A. K.; Henneke, Jesper; Tosca, Nicholas J.; Moore, Kelsey R.; Clark, Benton C.; McLennan, Scott M.; Flannery, David T.; Steele, Andrew; Brown, Adrian J.; Zorzano, Maria-Paz; Hickman-Lewis, Keyron; Liu, Yang; VanBommel, Scott J.; Schmidt, Mariek E.; Kizovski, Tanya V.; Treiman, Allan H.; O’Neil, Lauren; Fairén, Alberto G.; Shuster, David L.; Gupta, Sanjeev; THE PIXL TEAM (American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2022-11-23)
    Here, we demonstrate that diffracted and fluoresced x-rays detected by the PIXL instrument (an x-ray fluorescence microscope on the Perseverance rover) provide information about the presence or absence of coherent crystalline ...
  • Downwelling LW Flux and Aerosol Opacity at Jezero Crater, Mars, as Derived from MEDA/TIRS 
    MARTINEZ, GERMAN (2022-11-09)
    This dataset contains the downwelling LW fluxes in the 5–80 microns range and the IR aerosol opacity needed to reproduce and plot the results shown in Figs. 8, 9, 10, 11 and 15 of the manuscript entitled "Surface Energy ...
  • SCM dataset for manuscript "Surface energy fluxes and temperatures at Jezero crater, Mars" 
    Savijärvi, Hannu; Martinez, German; Harri, Ari Matti (2022-10-11)
    This dataset contains the Single Column Model (SCM) output needed to reproduce and plot the results shown in Figs. 3-5, 7-11 and 13-14 of the manuscript entitled “Surface energy fluxes and temperatures at Jezero crater, ...
  • The power of paired proximity science observations: Co-located data from SHERLOC and PIXL on Mars 
    Razzell Hollis, Joseph; Moore, Kelsey R.; Sharma, Sunanda; Beegle, Luther W.; Grotzinger, John P.; Allwood, Abigail; Abbey, William; Bhartia, Rohit; Brown, Adrian J.; Clark, Benton C.; Cloutis, Edward Anthony, 1958-; Corpolongo, Andrea; Henneke, Jesper; Hickman-Lewis, Keyron; Hurowitz, Joel A.; Jones, Michael W. M.; Liu, Yang; Martínez-Frías, Jesús; Murphy, Ashley; Pedersen, David A. K.; Shkolyar, Svetlana; Siljeström, Sandra; Steele, Andrew; Tice, Michael M.; Treiman, Allan H.; Uckert, Kyle; VanBommel, Scott J.; Yanchilina, Anastasia G. (Elsevier, 2022-11-15)
    We present a synthesis of PIXL elemental data and SHERLOC Raman spectra collected on two targets investigated by the Perseverance rover during the first year of its exploration of Jezero Crater, Mars. The Bellegarde target ...
  • Cryogeomorphic characterization of shadowed regions in the Artemis exploration zone 
    Bickel, Valentin Tertius; Moseley, B.; Hauber, Ernst; Shirley, M.; Williams, J.-P.; Kring, David A. (David Allen) (AGU, 2022-08-26)
    In the next couple of years a large number of robotic missions and payloads will be delivered to the Moon, ultimately culminating in crewed missions. Those missions aim at characterizing lunar polar volatiles, which are ...
  • The SHERLOC Calibration Target on the Mars 2020 Perseverance Rover: Design, Operations, Outreach, and Future Human Exploration Functions 
    Fries, Marc D.; Lee, Carina; Bhartia, Rohit; Razzell Hollis, Joseph; Beegle, Luther W.; Uckert, Kyle; Graff, Trevor G.; Abbey, William; Bailey, Zachary; Berger, Eve L.; Burton, Aaron S.; Calaway, Michael J.; Cardarelli, Emily L.; Davis, Kristine N.; DeFlores, Lauren; Edgett, Kenneth S.; Fox, Allison C.; Garrison, Daniel H.; Haney, Nikole C.; Harrington, Roger S.; Jakubek, Ryan S.; Kennedy, Megan R.; Hickman-Lewis, Keyron; McCubbin, Francis M.; Miller, Ed; Monacelli, Brian; Pollock, Randy; Rhodes, Richard; Siljeström, Sandra; Sharma, Sunanda; Smith, Caroline L.; Steele, Andrew; Sylvia, Margarite; Tran, Vinh D.; Weiner, Ryan H.; Yanchilina, Anastasia G.; Aileen Yingst, R. (Springer Nature, 2022-08-22)
    The Scanning Habitable Environments with Raman and Luminescence for Organics and Chemicals (SHERLOC) is a robotic arm-mounted instrument onboard NASA’s Perseverance rover. SHERLOC combines imaging via two cameras with both ...
  • Coordinated Neutron and X-ray Computed Tomography of Meteorites: Detection and Distribution of Hydrogen-Bearing Materials 
    Treiman, Allan H; LaManna, Jacob M.; Hussey, Daniel S.; DeClue, Isabella; Anovitz, Lawrence M. (2022-08)
    SOM-1: Calculations referred to in text, and additional color schemes
  • MEVTV newsletter, issue 7 
    Unknown author (Lunar and Planetary Institute, 1990-01)
    The MEVTV Newsletter aimed to keep the Study Group informed about the latest meetings, activities, and other news relevant to MEVTV's goals and Mars in general.
  • MEVTV newsletter, issue 6 
    Unknown author (Lunar and Planetary Institute, 1989-08)
    The MEVTV Newsletter aimed to keep the Study Group informed about the latest meetings, activities, and other news relevant to MEVTV's goals and Mars in general.
  • MEVTV newsletter, issue 5 
    Unknown author (Lunar and Planetary Institute, 1989-01)
    The MEVTV Newsletter aimed to keep the Study Group informed about the latest meetings, activities, and other news relevant to MEVTV's goals and Mars in general.

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