Laboratory and Spacecraft Investigations for Planetary Exploration

这项拨款旨在支持两个研究领域。首先，在短期内，它寻求为火星科学和探索的现有研究计划提供运营支持。其次，它将提供业务支助，以提高约克大学模拟行星环境的新设施的科学和工程回报 研究的第一条线提议为目前在火星上运行的火星科学实验室（MSL）使命增加价值，并为学生提供培训机会。这项建议试图通过对以前着陆点的火星大气进行理论建模，并将这一理论工作与轨道数据相结合，将这一使命的结果置于背景之中。从长远来看，HQP将有机会直接参与MSL使命操作，以测试火星上的理论模型。这些机会还将使加拿大在使命中的存在更加引人注目，并向国际伙伴展示我们的能力。 第二条研究路线旨在通过支持在实验室模拟室中模拟行星环境来为观测提供背景。这将使航天器收集的数据得到测试和扩展，以揭示随着时间的推移帮助创建和塑造这些天体的过程。因此，现有飞行任务的科学回报将得到加强。这些室还将允许开发科学仪器，以询问这些物体的表面和大气层，用于未来的空间任务。这使得加拿大能够在行星工具和技术方面发展一种新的利基，这种工具和技术最终可能成为对选定飞行的使命的重大贡献或基础。

This grant seeks to support two lines of research. First, in the near term, it seeks to provide operating support to an existing research program in Mars Science and Exploration. Secondly, it will provide operating support to enhance the scientific and engineering return of new facilities for simulating planetary environments at York University The first line of research proposes to add value to the Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) Mission that is currently operating on Mars and provide training opportunities for students. This proposal seeks to place the results of this mission in context through theoretical modelling of the martian atmosphere at previous landing sites and combining this theoretical work with orbital data. Longer term, opportunities will be available for HQPs to participate directly in MSL Mission Operations to test theoretical models on Mars. Such opportunities will also provide Canada with a higher profile presence on the Mission and demonstrate our competency to international partners. The second line of research seeks to provide context to observations by supporting simulations of planetary environments in laboratory simulation chambers. This will allow data gathered by spacecraft to be tested and expanded upon to reveal the processes that have helped to create and shape these bodies over time. Thus the scientific return from existing missions will be enhanced. These chambers will also allow scientific instrumentation to be developed to interrogate the surfaces and atmospheres of these bodies for future space missions. This enables the development of a new Canadian niche in planetary tools and techniques which may eventually become a significant contribution to or the basis of a mission selected for flight.