[Crater-team] Input for ESM6 Lunar Environment Theme - Radiation

Wed Sep 18 12:18:22 EDT 2024

Dear All,

At this afternoon’s CRaTER meeting, I’d like to follow-up on the recent discussion we had about the ESM6 proposal.

As the lead for the Lunar Environment theme, I’ve got to give an update at the LRO ESM6 Workshop on Friday.

It would be great to have at least 2 or 3 CRaTER-focused quad charts with some initial ideas. See attached template.

  *   An obvious topic is solar cycle variability and getting closer to a 22-year Hale Cycle with LRO  (due around 2031), which should help better inform on the radiation environment during Artemis missions.

  *   Phillip and I are working on a quad chart for mapping radiation at the surface with implications for both science and exploration.

Looking forward to getting your input!

Cheers, Tim

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All,

   Please see the attached slides from the most recent LRO PSWG meeting.  For the first time ever, the proposal includes a direct reference to CRaTER (Section on Lunar Environment – Radiation).  We have a few pages to make the case for our extended science effort.

    Would everyone please give this some thought in the next few weeks?  The PDF shows the timetable for the proposal preparation.   Noah has given us an opening to shine so let’s be proactive and come forward with our best ideas.     To get this going, perhaps a starting point would be to identify the title of any new studies to be done with CRaTER data in ESM6.  For each, it would be good to identify which would require data from other LRO instruments (that would be most highly desirable, but not necessary).     Also, for each, it would be great to identify whether any different kind of data is required (for CRaTER, I think we’ve plumbed the depths of that, aside from additional and/or different kinds of slews).   And finally, why do we need more data rather than use existing data (for us, the traditional answer is that we are probing the solar cycle and so more data is different data – when we hit 22 years in operation, then that argument starts to weaken, though every 11 and 22-year cycle are different!).

   Time to put on our thinking caps!   We can start discussing at next week’s CRaTER call.

Thanks,

  *   Harlan

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Date: Monday, July 22, 2024 at 9:28 AM
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Team,

Attached are the slides presented last Friday on ESM6. I’d encourage the teams to work towards identifying the science questions (requiring new data) for ESM6 in the next month. Don’t assume anything is not worth pursuing, just yet.

-Noah

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