[Crater-team] ESM6 preparation

[Harlan Spence]

Hi Andrew,

   Not new science for ESM6, but if it really is our last hurrah for the mission, then I think we should be promoting the idea of a bookend set of papers for Space Science Reviews that summarizes the mission.  The initial instrument and mission papers are no woefully out of date relative to all the different things we’ve done over the years.  For the sake of future generations who will use LRO data, we owe it to the community to document things like instrument performance, operational changes, as well as our own summary of science findings and even opportunities for the future.    We did this on Van Allen Probes and it was well received.   Those papers took a long time to complete and with a much shorter mission and a tighter set of goals.  If we are to do it collectively with LRO, then we should give ourselves lots of time to work on these papers.  If we back it into ESM6 work as a goal, then there is a greater chance it will happen rather than leaving it as a wouldn’t-it-be-nice-to-do thing.

   I’ll weigh in on science topics in a bit…

Thanks, - Harlan

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Date: Wednesday, January 17, 2024 at 8:56 AM
To: Andrew Jordan <A.P.Jordan at unh.edu>, crater-team at lists.sr.unh.edu <crater-team at lists.sr.unh.edu>
Subject: Re: [Crater-team] ESM6 preparation
Hi,

We will need to cancel today's meeting as we have the EOS All hands mtg at 2pm -3:30pm.

Sonya


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Subject: [Crater-team] ESM6 preparation

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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