[Crater-team] ESM6 preparation

Andrew Jordan ajordan at guero.sr.unh.edu
Tue Jan 16 16:21:26 EST 2024


Hi everyone,

Noah wants the LRO instrument teams to prepare for the ESM6 proposal, so 
it's time to start brainstorming and collecting our ideas. This will 
probably be the last LRO proposal we work on! It's been a great ride 
with you all, and here's to three more years!

As before, most observations we propose need to be *new* in some way: 
new targets, new modes, new orientations, etc. Going through the 
previous ESM proposals gave me some ideas:

1) Can LRO do high-latitude slews so CRaTER can make horizon 
observations? If so, we could search for any changes in horizon 
observations from low to high latitudes (we already have horizon 
observations up to about +/-80 deg).

2) Observe the declining phase of Solar Cycle 25, and (hopefully) show 
that it meets our predictions of a grand minimum.

3) We discussed a mode change a number of years ago, but dismissed it 
because CRaTER already sends down just about everything. Is that idea 
worth revisiting?

Please send me your ideas, even if they seem a little crazy. I'll 
collate them, and we can all discuss them on a future telecon.

Thank you,
Andrew


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