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The initial instrument and mission papers are no woefully out of date relative to all the different things we’ve done over the years.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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