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BLISS: Interplanetary Exploration with Swarms of Low-Cost Spacecraft
Alexander N. Alvara, Lydia Lee, Emmanuel Sin +3
Leveraging advancements in micro-scale technology, we propose a fleet of autonomous, low-cost, small solar sails for interplanetary exploration. The Berkeley Low-cost Interplanetar…
Automatic detection of impact craters on Al foils from the Stardust interstellar dust collector using convolutional neural networks
Logan Jaeger, Anna L. Butterworth, Zack Gainsforth +9
NASA's Stardust mission utilized a sample collector composed of aerogel and aluminum foil to return cometary and interstellar particles to Earth. Analysis of the aluminum foil begi…
Chondrules from high-velocity collisions: thermal histories and the agglomeration problem
Nick Choksi, Eugene Chiang, Harold C. Connolly +2
We assess whether chondrules, once-molten mm-sized spheres filling the oldest meteorites, could have formed from super-km/s collisions between planetesimals in the solar nebula. Hi…
Cryogenic Cometary Sample Return
Andrew J. Westphal, Larry R. Nittler, Rhonda Stroud +11
Comets likely formed in the outer regions of the protosolar nebula where they incorporated and preserved primitive presolar materials, volatiles resident in the outer disk, and mor…
Volatile Sample Return in the Solar System
Stefanie N. Milam, Jason P. Dworkin, Jamie E. Elsila +17
We advocate for the realization of volatile sample return from various destinations including: small bodies, the Moon, Mars, ocean worlds/satellites, and plumes. As part of recent…
Ultra-heavy cosmic-ray science--Are r-process nuclei in the cosmic rays produced in supernovae or binary neutron star mergers?
W. R. Binns, M. H. Israel, B. F. Rauch +25
The recent detection of 60Fe in the cosmic rays provides conclusive evidence that there is a recently synthesized component (few MY) in the GCRs (Binns et al. 2016). In addition, t…