This is a $455,055 grant award to the Planetary Science Institute (PSI), a non-profit research organization in Tucson, Arizona, by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center. The grant is for research on products of explosive eruptions and pyroclastic deposits, which provide important information about the thermal history and volatile content of planetary bodies. PSI will perform data analysis, modeling, and other research services to support NASA's planetary...
This is a $278,530 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the Planetary Science Institute (PSI), a non-profit research organization based in Tucson, Arizona. The grant is for PSI to execute a balanced science program focused on discipline-specific guidance, administration priorities, and congressional direction. This includes participating as a key partner in NASA's exploration initiatives, with a focus on scientific research of, on, and from the Moon, lunar...
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 federal grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to the Planetary Science Institute, a non-profit research organization, to provide analog support services to maximize science during the human exploration of the moon. The grant, valued at $29,998.00, is for research and does not have a set-aside designation. The Planetary Science Institute has previous experience providing a range of research services to NASA related to the...
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has awarded a $101,069.31 grant to the Planetary Science Institute (PSI), a non-profit research organization based in Tucson, Arizona. The grant, awarded under contract number 80NSSC19K0781, aims to develop new algorithms and computational methods to enable more accurate thermal modeling of airless planetary bodies, including the Moon, Mars, and asteroids. The work will focus on improving the ability to model the strong horizontal...
This is a $313,865 grant awarded by NASA to the Planetary Science Institute (PSI), a non-profit research organization in Tucson, Arizona. The grant is for a multi-pronged 3D modeling effort to understand the habitability of rocky planets in our solar system over time and to inform the detection and characterization of habitable exoplanets. The research aims to explore key dynamic components of planetary atmospheres, including atmospheric and oceanic heat transport, cloud variability, and the...
This is a $193,305 grant award to the Planetary Science Institute (PSI), a non-profit research organization, by the Shared Services Center of a civilian federal agency. The grant is for executing a balanced science program based on guidance from the National Academies, administration priorities, and Congressional direction. This includes participating as a key partner in the agency's exploration initiative, focusing on scientific research related to the Moon, Mars, and beyond. The grant also...
This federal contract award to the Planetary Science Institute, a nonprofit research organization, is for a two-year research grant of $157,310.93 from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center. The grant will fund a project to train citizen scientists, educators, and students across the U.S. on using low-cost robotic telescopes to conduct astronomical observations and research. The research will focus on asteroid astrometry and photometry, exoplanet...
This is a $460,588.00 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 is for a research project titled "Seasonal, Annual, and Multidirectional Sand Flux Trends Related to Global or Regional Forcing Factors" that aims to investigate the role of wind in transporting sediment on Mars. The grant does not utilize a set-aside...
This is a $111,774.00 grant contract awarded to the Planetary Science Institute by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center. The contract is for research on the origin, characteristics, and evolution of the solar system, including analysis, modeling, and data services related to planetary bodies such as Mars, Mercury, asteroids, and comets. The Planetary Science Institute is an independent non-profit research organization that has previously supported...
This is a grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to the Planetary Science Institute, a non-profit research organization. The $156,867.79 grant is for research on the properties and behavior of chemical systems with components in multiple phases, which are important for understanding planetary geochemistry and climate. The research aims to improve modeling capabilities for representing condensed phases, phase changes, and the effects of pressure and temperature gradients in planetary subsurfaces and atmospheres. This work supports NASA's Solar System Workings (SSW) program goal of improving understanding of physical and chemical processes affecting planetary surfaces, crusts, oceans, and atmospheres. No set-aside designation is mentioned for this award.