P24C:
Ultraviolet Observing of Solar System Targets II


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Session ID#: 60716

Session Description:
Ultraviolet spectroscopy and imaging have a decades-long history as valuable  techniques for studying atmospheres, aurorae, plumes, and surface composition and volatiles on asteroids, comet nuclei and moons. While there continue to be opportunities for UV remote sensing from Earth orbit and in future robotic missions, the infrastructure for UV instrumentation is at a crossroads. Existing orbital facilities are nearing the end of their useful lives and there continue to be many phenomena that cannot be effectively studied with existing, high-heritage instrument designs.   Exciting advances in UV-focused technologies promise new capabilities that can be incorporated into the next generation of robotic probes, flexible SmallSat missions, and large aperture space-based observatories. This session welcomes abstracts covering UV science results, as well as reports on progress toward developing new technologies such as UV detector technologies, high performance coatings, and novel sensor designs.
Primary Convener:  Amanda R Hendrix, Planetary Science Institute, Tucson, United States
Conveners:  Walt Harris, University of Arizona, Lunar & Planetary Laboratory, Tucson, United States, Faith Vilas, Planetary Science Institute Seabrook, Seabrook, United States and Shouleh Nikzad, JPL/Caltech, Pasadena, United States
Primary Liaison:  Amanda R Hendrix, Planetary Science Institute, Tucson, United States
Chairs:  Walt Harris, University of Arizona, Lunar & Planetary Laboratory, Tucson, United States and Amanda R Hendrix, Planetary Science Institute, Tucson, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Shouleh Nikzad, JPL/Caltech, Pasadena, United States
Index Terms:

6210 Comets [PLANETARY SCIENCES: SOLAR SYSTEM OBJECTS]
6218 Jovian satellites [PLANETARY SCIENCES: SOLAR SYSTEM OBJECTS]
6280 Saturnian satellites [PLANETARY SCIENCES: SOLAR SYSTEM OBJECTS]
6297 Instruments and techniques [PLANETARY SCIENCES: SOLAR SYSTEM OBJECTS]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

How icy is Europa’s surface? - New HST Observations of Europa in the Mid-UV (354449)
Tracy Becker1, Kurt D Retherford1, Philippa Mary Molyneux1, Amanda R Hendrix2, Lorenz Roth3, Juan Alday4 and Ujjwal Raut1, (1)Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, United States, (2)Space Environment Technologies, Hawthorne, CA, United States, (3)KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Division of Space and Plasma Physics, School of Electrical Engineering, Stockholm, Sweden, (4)University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
Contemporary and Future UV Investigations of Planetary Atmospheres, Aurora, and Surfaces (Invited) (456900)
Kurt D Retherford, Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, United States
The LUVOIR Ultraviolet Multi-Object Spectrograph (LUMOS) (457722)
Walt Harris1, Kevin France2, Brian Fleming2 and Matt Bolcar3, (1)University of Arizona, Lunar & Planetary Laboratory, Tucson, United States, (2)Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, Boulder, United States, (3)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States
Hydrogen Lyman Alpha Imaging Camera onboard PROCYON (386366)
Shingo Kameda1, Masaki Kuwabara2 and Naoya Osada1, (1)Rikkyo University, Tokyo, Japan, (2)ISAS/JAXA, Kanagawa, Japan
A Dedicated Ultraviolet CubeSat for Astrophysics, SPARCS (Star Planet Activity Research CubeSat) (Invited) (410400)
Evgenya L Shkolnik1, David R. Ardila2, Travis Barman3, Matthew Beasley4, Bowman Judd5, Varoujan Gorjianb6, Daniel Jacobs5, April Jewell6, Joe Llama7, Mary Knapp8, Victoria Suzanne Meadows9, Shouleh Nikzad10, Connie Spittler11, Mark Swain12, Robert Zellem6 and Sarah Peacock13, (1)Arizona State University, School of Earth and Space Exploration, Tempe, United States, (2)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States, (3)University of Arizona, Tucson, United States, (4)Southwest Research Institute Boulder, Boulder, United States, (5)Arizona State University, Tempe, United States, (6)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, United States, (7)Lowell Observatory, Flagstaff, United States, (8)Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, United States, (9)SETI Institute, Seattle, United States, (10)JPL/Caltech, Pasadena, United States, (11)Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, Boulder, United States, (12)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States, (13)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States
Advancing UV Spectroscopy and Technology through NASA's Balloon Telescope Program (413886)
Erika T Hamden, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States and FIREBall-2 Science and Technical Team
Earth observation in the ultraviolet: the Mini-Euso telescope (430799)
Livio Conti, Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare - Sezione Roma Tor Vergata, Rome, Italy, Mario Bertaina, University of Turin, Turin, Italy, Marco Casolino, INFN, Sezione Roma Tor Vergata, Rome, Italy, Piergiorgio Picozza, INFN and University of Rome Tor Vergata, Physics, Rome, Italy and M. Ricci, Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati, Frascati, Italy
A Multi-Object Ultraviolet Spectrograph Concept for Solar System Exploration (453068)
Rebecca Nicole Schindhelm, Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp, Boulder, United States, Amanda R Hendrix, Planetary Science Institute, Tucson, United States and Brian Fleming, Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, Boulder, United States
Advanced Technologies Enabling High Performance Ultraviolet Instruments (460015)
Shouleh Nikzad, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States

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