The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) awarded a $200,856.86 grant to The Trustees of Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, for research on the interaction between the solar wind and unmagnetized planets like Venus. The primary objective is to study how the planetary interior, such as the conducting core size and electrical conductivity, influences the atmospheric ion loss and magnetic topology of Venus under various solar wind conditions, including extreme space weather events....
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) awarded a $431,596.55 grant to The Regents of the University of California, doing business as the University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley), to conduct research on the interaction between the solar wind and the atmosphere of Venus. The research aims to simulate this interaction with high fidelity in order to better understand features such as the super-rotation of Venus' upper atmosphere and plasma phenomena like the plasma tail...
This is a 3-year, $113,209 research grant awarded by NASA's Shared Services Center to Solana Scientific, Inc., a self-certified small disadvantaged business, to conduct 3D electromagnetic hybrid simulations investigating the interaction of the solar wind with Venus's atmosphere and ionosphere. The research will examine how the ion foreshock and phenomena associated with the quasi-parallel bow shock impact the Venusian magnetosheath and ionosphere. The grant does not have a set-aside designation....
This federal contract award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) supports research on the response of the Venus ionosphere and induced magnetosphere to variations in solar wind conditions. The $358,447.71 grant, awarded on August 1, 2015, aims to leverage a sophisticated MHD model to study how the Venus plasma environment reacts to changes in solar wind pressure and interplanetary magnetic field direction. The study...
This is a one-year grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the Regents of the University of California, Berkeley, in the amount of $100,992.24. The grant is for a pilot study to investigate the mass, momentum, and energy transfer between the solar wind and the Venusian upper atmosphere due to the solar wind interaction. The research aims to characterize the energy, momentum, and mass exchange between the solar wind and the Venusian neutral plasma...
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) awarded a $275,868.00 grant to Trustees of Boston University, a private university in Boston, Massachusetts, to recover, clean, document, and package ionospheric and atmospheric profiles acquired by the Pioneer Venus Orbiter (PVO) radio occultation investigation. This effort is aligned with the Planetary Data Archiving, Restoration, and Tools (PDART) program's call for proposals to restore and archive important planetary datasets. The...
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) awarded a $606,496.77 research grant to the Regents of the University of Michigan to investigate the distribution of thermal atomic oxygen in the thermosphere of Venus and hot oxygen in the Venus corona. This research will utilize the University of Michigan's Venus Thermosphere General Circulation Model (VTGCM) and a three-dimensional rarefied gas-kinetic model called V-AMPS, which is based on the Mars Adaptive Mesh Simulator (M-AMPS). The...
This federal grant award to the University of Colorado (CU) from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is focused on advancing the understanding of cloud dynamics and radiative balance in the Venus atmosphere. The $207,351.91 grant will support a series of microphysical cloud simulations using the Community Aerosol and Radiation Model for Atmospheres (CARMA) to characterize the properties of Venus' clouds and their potential impact on the planet's atmospheric super-rotation...
The University of Colorado, Boulder was awarded a $398,692.95 grant from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to conduct laboratory research supporting the agency's Mars Express (MEX), Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN), and Venus Express (VEX) missions. The research will utilize the MAVEN Imaging Ultraviolet Spectrograph (IUVS) engineering model to study the response of the Martian and Venusian upper atmospheres to variations in solar radiation. Key objectives...
This is a $382,860 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Arizona State University (ASU) to investigate the potential for early aqueous processes on Venus and their effects on the planet's subsequent geological evolution. The research aims to provide insights into the early history of Venus, including the possibility of an ancient ocean and its impacts on the Venus' atmosphere and surface composition. The work complements climate modeling efforts to...