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Phoenix Launch Jet AUGUST Would Be Involved in Returning Dawn Propulsion Niverse Back from the Launch Pad 4 launch date. He said the same crew News that prepares the Phoenix launch Jet AUGUST would be involved in returning Dawn Propulsion niverse back from the launch pad. 2007 U Laboratory riefs “This will give our team a chance VOLUME 37 B to take some time off and to com- NUMBER 8 plete some deferred work,” Patel Dawn targets Sept. 7 said. “So we can take it easy but at the same time we’ll continue to make A new target launch date of forward progress.” Friday, Sept. 7, has been set for Dawn will explore Ceres and ather than sending rovers to examine • The Microscopy, Electrochemistry and Conductiv- to carry a heavier scientific payload. Like past Mars Duxbury leads hometown parade R JPL’s Dawn mission to the as- Vesta, the two largest objects in the craters, hills or rocks, JPL’s next mission ity Analyzer experiment represents the first time wet missions, Phoenix uses a heat shield to slow its high- teroid belt. Launch date will be asteroid belt, in an effort to answer chemistry will be performed on Mars. Water brought speed entry, followed by a supersonic parachute that Epoxi and Next Project Manager Tom Duxbury leads Fort Wayne, Indiana’s to Mars, now being prepared for an Aug. 3 finalized by end of July. questions about the formation of our from Earth will be mixed with soil samples in four further reduces its speed to about 217 kilometers per Three Rivers Festival July 14. The festival’s space-exploration theme com- launch, will for the first time examine a frigid Dawn Project Manager Keyur solar system. separate beakers to study soluble chemicals in the hour (135 mph). The lander then separates from the memorated the 50th anniversary of Sputnik and the follow-on Soviet and Martian arctic landscape for conditions favor- Patel said the launch window soil. Also, the robotic arm will deliver soil samples to parachute and fires pulsed descent rocket engines to U.S. launches. able to past or present life. would extend through Oct. 15. a wheel that will in turn bring them to both atomic slow to about 9 kilometers per hour (5.5 mph) before Small-business forum in Duxbury is a Fort Wayne native who went on to Purdue University in The mission will launch from Continuing NASA’s “follow the water” strategy for force and optical microscopes for analysis. The big- landing on its three legs. August Indiana before coming to JPL in 1966. Cape Canaveral Air Force Sta- exploring the Red Planet’s potential habitability, gest particles the optical microscope can see are just Researchers evaluating possible landing sites have tion, Fla. The primary reasons over a millimeter long; the smallest it can view are used observations from JPL’s Mars Global Surveyor, JPL’s Business Opportunities the Phoenix lander will dig into the icy soil of Mars’ for the move were a combination about 500 times smaller, or about 2 microns across. Mars Odyssey and Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter to find Office will host a small-business Continued from page 3 northern plains to investigate whether frozen water of highly limited launch oppor- new life The atomic force microscope will map out the three- the safest places where the mission’s goals can be met. science forum and vendor fair on near the surface might periodically melt enough to tunities for Dawn in July and dimensional surfaces of particles down to about 100- Phoenix will land in area with few boulders at a latitude Tuesday, Aug. 21, from 8 a.m. to JPLers Steve Chesley, Don Yeomans and Ken Klaasen are on the Epoxi sustain a livable environment for microbes. the potential impact to launch nanometer resolution, one one-hundredth the width of equivalent to central Greenland or northern Alaska. noon in von Kármán. JPL personnel science team. Phoenix is scheduled to lift off from Cape Canav- preparations for JPL’s upcoming a human hair. “Landing safely on Mars is difficult no matter what are welcome to attend. Klaasen is also deputy principal investigator for the other newly se- eral Air Force Station in Florida during a three-week Phoenix Mars lander mission, set • The Meteorological Station, with a laser for as- method you use,” said Phoenix Project Manager Barry Twenty to 25 high-tech small busi- lected Discovery mission of opportunity, New Exploration of Tempel 1 launch window beginning Aug. 3. Landing would be for an Aug. 3 liftoff. A September sessing water and dust in the atmosphere, will Goldstein. “Our team has been testing the system relent- nesses will exhibit their products and (Next). The mission will reuse the Stardust spacecraft to revisit comet in late May or early June 2008. launch for Dawn maintains all of monitor weather throughout the planned three-month lessly since 2003 to identify and address whatever vul- services to JPL science and technol- Tempel 1, which was encountered by Deep Impact on July 4, 2005. Although the mission is not designed to detect the science mission goals a July mission during Martian spring and summer. The nerabilities may exist.” ogy staff and procurement represen- This investigation will provide the first look at the changes to a comet past or present life, Phoenix will look for other con- launch would have provided. information collected will aid understanding of how Phoenix’s principal investigator is Peter Smith of the tatives, and will have the opportunity nucleus produced after its close approach to the sun and will mark the ditions favorable to life. For example, “If we detect Patel said crews are already water is cycled seasonally between ground ice and University of Arizona; the Tucson campus will host the to discuss future NASA and JPL first time a comet has ever been revisited. Next also will extend the organics on Mars that’ll be a huge discovery,” noted on hand in Florida to remove the atmospheric vapor. The laser is an atmospheric-sens- mission’s science operations center. Tamppari, in her subcontracting opportunities. mapping of Tempel 1, making it the most mapped comet nucleus to date. JPL’s Leslie Tamppari, Phoenix’s project scientist. Dawn spacecraft from its launch ing lidar, for “light detection and ranging,” designed first position as a project scientist, leads the efforts of For more information, visit http:// This mapping will help address the major questions of comet nucleus One of seven instruments on the spacecraft, the vehicle, return it to a clean room to see clouds and dust in the boundary layer, a mixed 25 co-investigators worldwide, in addition to a number acquisition.jpl.nasa.gov/boo or call “geology” raised by Deep Impact images of areas where it appears mate- Thermal and Evolved-Gas Analyzer, will determine and connect it to support equip- layer in the atmosphere in which convection takes of other collaborators. In addition, about 25 people from Jasmine Colbert, ext. 4-8689. rial might have flowed like a liquid or powder. Next is scheduled to fly by whether soil and ice samples contain any organic ment in preparation for the new Tempel 1 in February 2011. compounds. Finding any such compounds would be place, Tamppari said. JPL will support Phoenix operations in Tucson. a key to interpreting the site’s habitability. For the final stage of landing, Phoenix is equipped For more information on the mission, visit http://www. In addition to determining if Mars’ arctic soil could with a pulsed thruster method of deceleration. An nasa.gov/mission_pages/phoenix/main/index.html. support life, Phoenix’s other main science goals are ultra-lightweight landing system allows the spacecraft by his wife, Phuong Thao Ho- ing and Construction Section, support after the sudden passing of to study the history of water in all of its phases and ang. Services were held at Rose died July 23. my mom. She left behind five sur- to study Martian weather from a polar perspective. P assings Hills Mortuary in Whittier. A 15-year JPL employee, viving kids, four grandchildren and Besides the Thermal and Evolved-Gas Analyzer, to Gutheinz served as supervisor incredibly a thriving tax business accomplish its objectives Phoenix will carry the fol- Retiree Benjamin Thomas, of the Energy Management at the age of 79. She was active till lowing set of advanced research tools never before 96, died June 14. System/Heating, Ventilation the end, gardening, reading, fishing, Thomas worked at JPL from and Air Conditioning Group writing letters and the occasional used in Mars exploration: • The Mars Descent Imager will take a downward- Phoenix 1955 to 1979. He is survived and as manager of the Facili- battle with the IRS, which she by sons Ben Jr. and Jerry, and ties and Maintenance Opera- relished taking on for her clients. looking picture during the final moments before daughter Patricia Gordy. Servic- tions Section before his most We are grateful that all of her kids landing, providing a bridge between orbiter-scale es were held in Palm Desert. READ AND SUBMIT CLASSIFIED ADS recent position. and grandkids were able to be with and lander-scale images. “It’s very important to launch AT J P L’ S O nline ne W S S O urce Among his achievements, her at the end, to wish her love and get an overhead image of our landing site at high James Bennett, 87, a Gutheinz was instrumental in a well-deserved rest . and one http://dailyplanet resolution, because that will allow us to see smaller retired test specialist engineer in facilitating the beginning of the more very special fishing trip. Miss Section 382, died June 20.
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