Review of Progress Toward Implementing the Decadal Survey Vision and Voyages for Planetary Sciences
Statement of Task The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine shall convene an ad hoc committee to review the response of NASA's Planetary Science program to the 2011 decadal survey, "Vision and Voyages for Planetary Sciences in the Decade 2013-2022" (V&V). The committee's review will include the following tasks: - Describe the most significant scientific discoveries, technical advances, and relevant programmatic changes in planetary sciences over the years since the publication of the planetary decadal survey (Vision & Voyages or V&V);
- Assess the degree to which NASA’s current planetary science program addresses the strategies, goals, and priorities outlined in the V&V and other relevant NRC and Academies reports and assess NASA progress toward realizing these strategies, goals, and priorities, and effectiveness in maintaining programmatic balance;
- With respect to the Mars program within the planetary science program, the committee’s assessment will include:
- the Planetary Science Division’s Mars exploration architecture and its responsiveness to the strategies, priorities, and guidelines put forward by the National Academies’ V&V and other relevant National Academies Mars-related reports;
- the long-term goals of the Planetary Science Division’s Mars Exploration Program and the program’s ability to optimize the science return, given the current fiscal posture of the program;
- the Mars exploration architecture’s relationship to Mars-related activities to be undertaken by foreign agencies and organizations; and
- the extent to which the Mars exploration architecture represents a reasonably balanced mission portfolio.
- Recommend any actions that could be taken to optimize the science value of the planetary science program including how to take into account emergent discoveries since the decadal in the context of current and forecasted resources available to it;
- Provide guidance about implementation of the decadal’s recommended mission portfolio and decision rules for the remaining years of the current decadal survey, but do not revisit or redefine the scientific priorities or mission recommendations from the V&V and;
- Recommend any actions that should be undertaken to prepare for the next decadal survey, such as community discussion of science goals, potential missions, and programmatic balance, and NASA support of potential mission concept studies.
More information on this project may be viewed on our current projects website. Committee Meetings May 4-5, 2017, Washington, DC View Agenda I View Presentations July 11-13, 2017, Caltech View Agenda I View Presentations August 28-30, 2017, Woods Hole, Massachusetts View Agenda I View Presentations November 29-December 1, 2017 Irvine, CA View Agenda I View Presentations February 26-28, 2018, Washington, DC View Agenda I View Presentations Committee Membership View Bios Louise M. Prockter, Co-Chair Lunar and Planetary Institute Joseph H. Rothenberg, Co-Chair Independent Consultant David A. Bearden The Aerospace Corporation Scott Bolton Southwest Research Institute Barbara A. Cohen NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Andrew M. Davis University of Chicago Alan W. Harris MoreData! Inc. Amanda R. Hendrix Planetary Science Institute Bruce M. Jakosky University of Colorado, Boulder Margaret G. Kivelson University of California, Los Angeles Juan Perez-Mercader Harvard University Mark P. Saunders Independent Consultant Suzanne Smrekar Jet Propulsion Laboratory David J. Stevenson California Institute of Technology Staff Dwayne Day Study Director Mia Brown Research Associate Dionna Wise Travel Coordinator Presentations Below is an archive list of names and a link to the slides presented at the committee meeting during open session. We have only included the slides for which the presenter has given consent to post. Presenter names and slides are listed in the order of the agenda.Presentations which have been made available for posting will be added after the panel meeting is complete. May 4-5, 2017
Jim Green Jeffrey Johnson Jim Watzin Steve Squyres- no slides Bob Grimm Tim Swindle Alfred McEwen Amy Simon Steve Mackwell July 11-13, 2017
Bob Pappalardo 1 & 2 Barry Goldstein Kevin Hand 1 & 2 Jennifer Eigenbrode Hal Levison Samuel Lawrence Hunter Waite Martha Gilmore Melissa Trainer Bonnie Buratti William Moore Bethany Ehlmann Bruce Jakosky Shane Byrne Richard Zurek 1 Richard Zurek 2 Ken Farley T. Joseph Lazio Michael Meyer Jim Green August 28-30, 2017
Thomas Zurbuchen Jim Watzin- No slides Kristen Erickson Steve Creech
November 29-December 1, 2017 Bruce Yost-permission pending Robert Kellogg Chad Edwards Kevin McKeegan-permission pending
February 26-28, 2018
To be added post meeting -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- * No slides indicate that the presenter did not utilize slides during their presentation. * Permission pending indicates that the presenter has not given us consent to publish the slides they presented at the meeting. *Written materials submitted to a study committee by external sources are listed in the project's public access file and can be made available to the public upon request via the Academies Public Access Records Office.
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