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,
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Dr. Harlan E. Spence
Director, Institute for the Study of Earth,
Oceans, and Space
Professor of Physics and Astronomy
Morse Hall, Room 306
University of New Hampshire
8 College Road
Durham, NH 03824-3525
Phone: 603-862-0322
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Twitter: @HarlanSpence2
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