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Supporting Research and Data Analysis in NASA's Science Programs

Engines for Innovation and Synthesis

By: National Research Council,Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences,Commission on Physical Sciences, Mathematics, and Applications,Space Studies Board,Task Group on Research and Analysis Programs

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Supporting Research and Data Analysis in NASA's Science Programs

Engines for Innovation and Synthesis

Effective science, clearly a mandate for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), involves asking significant questions about the physical and biological world and seeking definitive answers. Its product is new knowledge that has value to the nation. NASA's flight projects are highly visible and usually the most costly elements of this process, but they are only a part of the science enterprise. Flight projects are founded on research that defines clear scientific goals and questions, designs missions to address those questions, and develops the required technologies to accomplish the missions. This research is funded primarily by NASA's research and analysis (R&A) programs. Data from flight projects are transformed into knowledge through analysis and synthesis-research that is funded both by R&A and by the data analysis (DA) portion of mission operations and data analysis (MO&DA) programs. R&A and DA programs are the subject of this report and are grouped for convenience under the heading of research and data analysis (R&DA).

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Evaluating the Biological Potential in Samples Returned from Planetary Satellites and Small Solar System Bodies

Framework for Decision Making

By: National Research Council,Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences,Space Studies Board,Task Group on Sample Return from Small Solar System Bodies

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Evaluating the Biological Potential in Samples Returned from Planetary Satellites and Small Solar System Bodies

Framework for Decision Making

By: National Research Council,Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences,Space Studies Board,Task Group on Sample Return from Small Solar System Bodies

For the first time since the Apollo program, NASA and space agencies abroad have plans to bring samples to Earth from elsewhere in the solar system. There are missions in various stages of definition to gather material over the next decade from Mars, an asteroid, comets, the satellites of Jupiter, and the interplanetary dust. Some of these targets, most especially Jupiter's satellites Europa and Ganymede, now appear to have the potential for harboring living organisms. This book considers the possibility that life may have originated or existed on a body from which a sample might be taken and the possibility that life still exists on the body either in active form or in a form that could be reactivated. It also addresses the potential hazard to terrestrial ecosystems from extraterrestrial life if it exists in a returned sample. Released at the time of the Internationl Committee on Space Research General Assembly, the book has already established the basis for plans for small body sample retruns in the international space research community.

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Evaluating the Biological Potential in Samples Returned from Planetary Satellites and Small Solar System Bodies

Framework for Decision Making

By: Task Group on Sample Return from Small Solar System Bodies,Space Studies Board,Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences,National Research Council

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Evaluating the Biological Potential in Samples Returned from Planetary Satellites and Small Solar System Bodies

Framework for Decision Making

By: Task Group on Sample Return from Small Solar System Bodies,Space Studies Board,Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences,National Research Council

For the first time since the Apollo program, NASA and space agencies abroad have plans to bring samples to Earth from elsewhere in the solar system. There are missions in various stages of definition to gather material over the next decade from Mars, an asteroid, comets, the satellites of Jupiter, and the interplanetary dust. Some of these targets, most especially Jupiter's satellites Europa and Ganymede, now appear to have the potential for harboring living organisms. This book considers the possibility that life may have originated or existed on a body from which a sample might be taken and the possibility that life still exists on the body either in active form or in a form that could be reactiviated. It also addresses the potential hazard to terrestrial ecosystems from extraterrestrial life if it exists in a returned sample. Released at the time of the Internationl Committee on Space Research General Assembly, the book has already established the basis for plans for small body sample retruns in the international space research community.

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Supporting Research and Data Analysis in NASA's Science Programs

Supporting Research and Data Analysis in NASA's Science Programs

Evaluating the Biological Potential in Samples Returned from Planetary Satellites and Small Solar System Bodies

Evaluating the Biological Potential in Samples Returned from Planetary Satellites and Small Solar System Bodies

Evaluating the Biological Potential in Samples Returned from Planetary Satellites and Small Solar System Bodies

Evaluating the Biological Potential in Samples Returned from Planetary Satellites and Small Solar System Bodies

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