This federal contract award was issued by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), a private research university focused on science and engineering. The $134,999.41 training grant will support research to understand the geological processes that shaped Mars' surface during the Noachian period, which may have created habitable environments and potential biosignatures. The research objectives include...
This is a $135,000.00 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), a private research university. The grant is for research to provide extensive geological and mineralogical evidence on the presence of liquid water on the surface of ancient Mars. Caltech has received over $500 million in prime federal contract awards from NASA and the Department of Defense over the past 5 years for a range of...
This is a $150,000.00 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) to conduct research on reconstructing the history of Jezero Crater Lake from remote 3D digital topography. The research is intended to provide a framework for the 2020 Mars Rover exploration mission. Caltech is a private research university that conducts significant scientific research and engineering services for NASA and the Department of...
This is a $115,725.47 grant award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), a private research university focused on science and engineering. The grant supports research to understand the history of water on the surface of Mars by studying minerals formed from water-rock interactions, specifically phyllosilicates and partially chloritized smectites. The research objectives are to synthesize and characterize partially...
This is a $398,382.37 grant from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) to conduct research related to identifying and quantifying phyllosilicate (clay) minerals on planetary bodies throughout the solar system. The research aims to improve the ability to remotely detect and characterize these minerals, which are crucial indicators of past water-rock interactions. Key tasks include synthesizing and characterizing smectite...
This federal contract award, valued at $352,952.13, was granted by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), a private research university in Pasadena, California. The contract is a grant for research to conduct global high-resolution mapping of glacial units on Mars and calculate constraints on the long-term evolution of the Martian climate. This work aims to further understand how the Amazonian climate of Mars has changed...
This $79,045.00 federal grant award was issued by the Shared Services Center of a civilian U.S. government agency to the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), a private research university. The grant is part of the ROSES (Research Opportunities in Space and Earth Sciences) funding opportunity, which aims to execute a balanced science program, support the agency's exploration initiative, and advance discovery in emerging fields. The grant does not have a set-aside designation. Caltech, as...
This is a training grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), a private research university, with a potential value of $134,999.18. The grant supports research to develop a quantitative method for reconstructing the paleohydrology of ancient Martian river networks from orbital observations of inverted channels on Mars. The goal is to fill a knowledge gap by using in-situ investigations of...
This is a $100,000.00 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), a private research university, for a project titled "MULTI-MODAL IMAGING ANALYSIS OF DEEP-SEA, CARBONATE-HOSTED MICROBIAL COMMUNITIES: CONNECTING DISTRIBUTION, COMPOSITION, AND ACTIVITY IN A TERRESTRIAL ANALOG SITE". The award has an ultimate completion date of August 31, 2025. Caltech is a leading research institution that has received...
This $187,978 grant was awarded by the Shared Services Center, a civilian U.S. government agency, to the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) to conduct research related to the distribution and variability of water-formed minerals on Mars. The work will leverage spectral data from the Compact Reconnaissance Imaging Spectrometer for Mars (CRISM) instrument to improve the understanding of the Martian surface. This grant is not associated with a set-aside program and has an ultimate...