Grant For Research 80NSSC19K1226
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- This is a $452,846.46 grant awarded by NASA's Shared Services Center to The Regents of the University of Colorado, doing business as the University of Colorado Office of Contracts and Grants Division, to study plasma motion and electric fields in localized magnetic cusp regions on the night side of Mars. The grant is part of NASA's Solar System Workings program, which seeks to understand physical processes affecting planetary atmospheres, exospheres, and magnetospheres. The University of...
- This is a $393,354.90 grant awarded by the Shared Services Center, a civilian agency, to The Regents of the University of Colorado (CU) to study variations in Martian ion escape rates using machine learning methods applied to data from the Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN) and Mars Express (MEX) spacecraft. The research aims to quantify the effects of upstream drivers like solar extreme ultraviolet radiation, solar wind, and interplanetary magnetic field on the two main ion escape...
- This is a $333,295.00 grant award to The Regents of the University of Colorado (doing business as the University of Colorado) from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) for research on the upper atmosphere of Mars. The award supports analysis of data from two Mars spacecraft, the Mars Express mission's SPICAM instrument and the MAVEN mission's IUVS instrument, using Mars general circulation models to characterize the dynamics of the Martian middle and upper atmosphere. This...
- 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...
- The University of Colorado was awarded a $378,264 research grant from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to study and compare the induced magnetospheres and ion escape at Venus and Mars. This work utilizes publicly available data from NASA's Planetary Data System (PDS) and the European Space Agency's (ESA) Planetary Science Archive (PSA) and aligns with NASA's Solar System Working (SSW) program. The grant, awarded on May 1, 2020, is a civilian contract without any set-aside...
- This is a research grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of Colorado to study the fundamental physical constants of carbon dioxide and carbon monoxide gases in the atmospheres of Mars and Venus. The grant, valued at $238,712.16, aims to measure electron-impact-induced emission cross sections for these gases to support data analysis of observations from the SPICAM and IUVS instruments on the Mars Express and MAVEN missions. This grant does not...
- This federal contract award, valued at $594,278, was granted by a civilian federal agency to The Regents of the University of Colorado (CU) to analyze new and unanticipated solar occultation measurements of the Mars thermosphere (120-200 km) made by the Extreme Ultraviolet (EUV) Monitor (EUVM) onboard the Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN) orbiter. The award, which is classified as a Grant for Research, has an ultimate completion date of August 20, 2026. CU is a prominent public...
- This $60,768.27 grant was awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to The Regents of the University of Colorado, doing business as the University of Colorado Office of Contracts and Grants Division, to support research for the Magnetospheric Multiscale Mission (MMS). The MMS has collected extensive high-resolution plasma, particle, and magnetic field data in the Earth's magnetotail region from altitudes ranging from 12 to 29 Earth radii. The grant, awarded on September...
- The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) awarded a $150,000.00 grant to The Regents of the University of Colorado, doing business as the University of Colorado, for research on "INVESTIGATIONS OF PARTICLE ENERGIZATION DUE TO PLASMA TURBULENCE AND MAGNETIC RECONNECTION WITH THE MAGNETOSPHERIC.MULTISCALE MISSION". This grant, which is not designated as a set-aside, has an ultimate completion date of August 31, 2026. The University of Colorado is a prominent public...
- This is a $49,966.57 research grant awarded by NASA's Shared Services Center to The Regents of the University of Colorado, doing business as the University of Colorado Office of Contracts and Grants Division. The grant is for a project titled "Seasonal Variation of Deuterium Ions and Non-Thermal Deuterium Escape at Mars" with student Eryn Cangi. The award has an ultimate completion date of August 31, 2023 and was granted on September 1, 2022 with no set-aside designation. The...
This is a $372,851.82 grant awarded by NASA's Shared Services Center to the University of Colorado (CU) for a research project titled "Temporal Evolution of Plasma near Mars: A Multi-Point Approach." The project aims to use data from the MAVEN and Mars Express spacecraft to study the temporal and spatial variability of the Martian plasma environment, addressing key questions about the response time to changes in upstream conditions, the stability of plasma conditions at low altitudes, and the evolution of escaping ion distributions. The work leverages the university's expertise in space sciences and its extensive history of federal contract and grant awards across scientific and technological domains. This grant is not associated with any set-aside designation, indicating CU's competitive capabilities in this research area. The project will run through July 2024, enhancing the scientific return from the MAVEN and Mars Express missions by providing a multi-point perspective on the Martian near-space environment.
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| P00005 | Funding Only Action | ($89) | 6/30/25 | |
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| Not listed | $0 | 8/15/23 | ||
| P00004 | Other Administrative Action | $0 | 8/15/23 | |
| P00003 | Other Administrative Action | $0 | 9/6/22 |