This is a $887,770.00 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to the Planetary Science Institute (PSI), a non-profit research organization based in Tucson, Arizona. The grant, titled "Investigating the Geophysical Control of 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko's Outburst Plumes", will fund research to study the geophysical processes that influence the outburst plumes of the comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. The award, identified as...
The U.S. government agency NASA awarded a $510,681 grant to the Planetary Science Institute, a non-profit research institute, to conduct a photometric study on how the surface physical properties of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko change with its perihelion passage. This research could provide clues toward understanding the surface evolution of Jupiter Family Comets. The grant does not have a set-aside designation. Planetary Science Institute has been the prime recipient of numerous federal...
This federal contract award, NNX16AK03G, was granted by the Shared Services Center, a civilian agency, to the Planetary Science Institute (PSI), a non-profit research organization. The $99,965.81 award is a grant for research to establish a research group focused on understanding the connection between geological features on cometary nuclei and large-scale cometary activity. The research will use data from the Rosetta mission to study the smooth areas on Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, building...
This federal contract award, NNX15AM45G, was granted by the Shared Services Center (SSC), a civilian agency, to the Planetary Science Institute (PSI), a non-profit research organization, to conduct research related to "Decoding the Origin of Continuum Coma Features in Comets." The $225,140.26 grant aims to improve the understanding of how dust is emitted from the nucleus of active comets and how it impacts the coma morphology observed through spacecraft and ground-based observations....
This federal contract award, valued at $361,387.00, was granted by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the Planetary Science Institute (PSI), a non-profit research organization based in Tucson, Arizona. The contract is a grant for research on "Ballistic Transport Processes on Comet Nuclei" and is intended to explore how such processes may dramatically alter the surface activity and geomorphology of comet 103P/Hartley 2, which has a small, bilobate nucleus with a...
This federal contract award, identified as 80NSSC21K0881, was granted by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the Planetary Science Institute (PSI), a non-profit research organization headquartered in Tucson, Arizona. The $367,943.00 award, which does not have a set-aside designation, is for the development of a suite of software tools to simulate, analyze, and interpret coma features present in images of comets. These tools will assist scientists in characterizing coma...
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center awarded a $225,484.84 grant to the Planetary Science Institute, a non-profit research organization, to conduct an investigation of the Rosetta mission's observations of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. The research aims to understand how the comet's nuclear activity manifests in its orbital and rotational motions, which will provide insight into the physics and chemistry of the comet's surface layers. The proposed...
This is a $416,922.00 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to the Planetary Science Institute (PSI), a non-profit research organization based in Tucson, Arizona. The grant, titled "TOOLS FOR ADVANCED DYNAMICAL CHARACTERIZATION OF SOLAR SYSTEM SMALL BODIES," is for research and development related to advancing the understanding of small bodies in the solar system. The grant does not utilize any set-aside designations,...
This is a $138,379.07 grant awarded by the NASA Shared Services Center to the Space Science Institute (SSI), a nonprofit research organization in Boulder, Colorado. The grant is for a research project titled "Organic Refractory Tholin at the Surface of the Comet 67P-CG: Insight from Laboratory Measurements and ROSINA Data." The project involves studying the composition and characteristics of the surface of Comet 67P-CG using laboratory measurements and data from the ROSINA instrument...
This is a $320,000.00 grant award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the Planetary Science Institute (PSI), a non-profit research organization headquartered in Tucson, Arizona. The award is for research related to the goals of NASA's Emerging Worlds program, which aims to enhance fundamental understanding of how the solar system formed and evolved. As a non-set-aside award, the contract reflects PSI's competitive capabilities in planetary science research. PSI has a...
This is a grant award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to the Planetary Science Institute (PSI), a non-profit research organization. The $447,860 grant will fund efforts to update the Spacecraft Planet Instrument C-matrix Events (SPICE) data and generate precise geometric backplane data for images of comets taken by several NASA missions, including Rosetta, Deep Space 1, Stardust, and Deep Impact. The goal is to provide the scientific community with improved datasets and tools to support analyses of comet characteristics and evolution. This work is relevant to NASA's Planetary Data Archiving, Restoration, and Tools (PDART) program, as it will enhance the data products available for future comet research. No set-aside designation is indicated for this award, which has a completion date of February 28, 2024.