Moon Mineralogy Mapper/Chandrayaan-1. Moon Mineralogy Mapper (M) is one of eleven instruments selected to fly onboard India’s Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft in 2008. M, selected as a NASA Discovery Mission of Opportunity in May, 2004, is a high spatial and spectral resolution spectrometer that will help scientists better understand the compositional variation of the Moon’s surface. Ms overall science...

† Dalhousie University, Halifax NS, Canada. B3H 3J5 § Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, MA, USA 02138 ±Universities Space Research Association, Columbia, MD 21044, USA ÐAtmospheric Chemistry and Dynamics Laboratory, Earth Sciences Division, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, MD 20771, USA ¥University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada. V6T 1Z3 ‡ Air Quality Processe...

MOUNT SHARP. M.G.A. Lapotre, B.L. Ehlmann, F. Ayoub, S.E. Minson, N.T. Bridges, A.A. Fraeman, R.E. Arvidson, J.L. Eigenbrode, R.C. Ewing, J.R. Johnson. California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA. Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, USA. USGS, Menlo Park, CA, USA. John Hopkins University, Laurel, MD, USA. Washington University in St. Louis, MO, USA. NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD, USA....

Data pertaining to nonmotion factors affecting ride quality of transport aircraft have been obtained as part of NASA in-house and sponsored research studies carried out onboard commuter-airline and research aircraft. From these data, quantitative effects on passenger discomfort of seat width, seat legroom, change in cabin pressure, and cabin noise are presented. Visual cu_ effects are also disc...

MAJOR ELEMENTS. J. Edmunson 1 , B. A. Cohen 2 , and M. N. Spilde 3 , 1 NASA Postdoctoral Program, Marshall Space Flight Center (National Space Science and Technology Center, Huntsville AL 35805, [email protected]), 2 Marshall Space Flight Center (Huntsville AL 35812, [email protected]), 3 Institute of Meteoritics (University of New Mexico, Albuquerque NM 87131, [email protected]).

One of NASA’s goals is to enable commercial access to space at a cost of $1000/lb (an order of magnitude less than today’s cost) by approximately 2010. Based on results from the 1994 Congressionally mandated, NASA led, Access-to-Space Study, an all rocket-powered single-stage-to-orbit reusable launch vehicle was selected as the best option for meeting the goal. To address the technology develop...

The latest Version-7 (V7) Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) Multi-satellite Precipitation Analysis (TMPA) products were released by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) in December of 2012. Their performance OPEN ACCESS

Airborne dust distributions over the Tibetan Plateau and surrounding areas derived from the first year of CALIPSO lidar observations Zhaoyan Liu, Dong Liu, Jianping Huang, M. Vaughan, Itsushi Uno, Nobuo Sugimoto, Chieko Kittaka, C. Trepte, Zhien Wang, C. Hostetler, and D. Winker National Institute of Aerospace, Hampton, VA 23666, USA University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY 82071, USA Lanzhou Univers...

The NASA Task Load Index (TLX) is a popular technique for measuring subjective mental workload. It relies on a multidimensional construct to derive an overall workload score based on a weighted average of ratings on six subscales: mental demand, physical demand, temporal demand, performance, effort, and frustration level. A program for implementing a computerized version of the NASA TLX is desc...

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