The Dust, Atmosphere and Plasma environment of the Moon and Small Bodies (DAP-2017) workshop was a forum to (i) discuss our current understanding of the surface environment of the Moon, the moons of Mars, and asteroids, (ii) share new results from past and ongoing missions to airless bodies and comets, and (iii) describe expectations for planned upcoming missions to airless bodies and comets.
The 2017 workshop was held in Boulder and hosted by LASP on January 11th-13th. It focused on open science questions, the status and future of our supporting modeling and laboratory experimental capabilities, and the definition of the required measurements and instrument capabilities for future investigations from orbit or landed missions.
DAP-2017 was a follow up on two previous workshops, LDAP-2010 and DAP-2012. Contributions to LDAP-2010 and DAP-2012 were published in special issues of Planetary and Space Sciences.
PSS Special Issue
Our request for a Special Issue in Planetary and Space Sciences (PSS) has been formally approved. The online forms will be available starting April 1, and the deadline for submitting a manuscript is June 30, 2017. In addition to the DAP-2017 participants, we are also extending an invitation to the larger lunar, planetary, and space science communities to submit papers to this special issue on subjects related to DAP-2017.
Schedule
* Invited SpeakersWednesday Jan. 11th, 2017
| Session I: The Moon |
| Chairs: Mihály Horányi and Alan Stern |
| 9:00 | Yvonne | Pendleton | Welcome and opening remarks | |
| 9:10 | *Jamey | Szalay | The dust environment on the Moon | slides |
| 10:10 | Matthew | Hedman | Possible evidence for low-altitude dust in LADEE-UVS data | slides |
| 10:30 | Mike | Barker | Searching for lunar horizon glow with the Lunar Orbiter Laser Altimeter | slides |
| 10:50 | Menelaos | Sarantos | Response of metals in the lunar exosphere during meteor showers and intervals of high solar wind flux | slides |
| 11:10 | Break | |||
| 11:30 | *Jasper | Halekas | Plasma environment of the Moon | slides |
| 12:30 | Yoshifumi | Futaana | Remote sensing of electric potential at lunar surface | slides |
| 12:50 | Stas | Barabash | SELMA: A mission to study lunar environment and surface interaction | slides |
| 13:10 | Lunch |
| Session I cont.: The Moon |
| Chairs: Jasper Halekas and Wojciech Miloch |
| 14:40 | Bill | Farrell | A comparison of solar wind hydroxylation within and outside lunar magnetic anomalies | slides |
| 15:00 | Shahab | Fatemi | Foreshock cavity upstream of the Moon | slides |
| 15:20 | Andrew | Poppe | ARTEMIS mapping of lunar crustal magnetic reflection of solar wind protons | slides |
| 15:40 | Jan | Deca | Coupling the observed lunar magnetic field with fully kinetic simulations: Implications for Reiner Gamma and swirl formation | slides |
| 16:00 | Break | |||
| 16:20 | Eugene | Martysh | Possibility to formation of lunar dusty plasma with weak magnetic properties | slides |
| 16:40 | *Ilia | Kuznetsov | Robotic missions of russian lunar program | slides |
| 17:40 | Lab Tour | |||
| 18:30 | Group Dinner |
Thursday Jan. 12th, 2017
| Session I cont.: The Moon |
| Chairs: Bill Farrell and Jamey Szalay |
| 9:00 | Brian | O'Brien | Dust on the Moon: From Apollo to Chang'e-4 | slides |
| 9:20 | Wojciech | Miloch | Simulations of dusty surfaces charged by plasma currents and photoemission | slides |
| 9:40 | Marcus | Piquette | The effect of asymmetric surface topography on dust dynamics in the lunar plasma environment | slides |
| 10:00 | Dylan | Carter | A model for tribocharging of regolith grains | slides |
| 10:20 | Ron | Creel | Coping with dust for extra-terrestrial exploration | slides |
| 10:40 | Break |
| Session II: Mars |
| Chairs: Bill Farrell and Alexander Zhakarov |
| 11:00 | *Mark | Showalter | Dust rings of Mars: Dynamical models and observational limits | slides |
| 12:00 | Laila | Andersson | Dust observations at Mars | slides |
| 12:20 | Masanori | Kobayashi | Circum-Martian dust monitor with a large detection area | slides |
| 12:40 | Lunch |
| Session III: Instrumentation and Laboratory Experiments |
| Chairs: Stas Barabash and Xu Wang |
| 14:10 | Martin | Wieser | The Advanced Small Analyzer for Neutrals (ASAN) | slides |
| 14:30 | A.J. | Gemer | Development of Hyperdust: Advanced insitu dust telescope | slides |
| 14:50 | Zoltan | Sternovsky | Detection of dust impacts on spacecraft by antenna instruments | slides |
| 15:10 | Break | |||
| 15:30 | *Sascha | Kempf | SUDA and the dust environment at Europa | slides |
| 16:30 | Michael | Deluca | Light and charge measurements of simulated aluminim micrometeoroids | slides |
| 16:50 | Jia | Han | Laboratory expermient of the solar wind interaction with magnetic dipole fields on the lunar surface | slides |
| 17:10 | Joseph | Schwan | Experimental measurements of highly negatively charged dust particles from electronemitting dusty surfaces | slides |
| 17:30 | Poster Session |
Friday Jan. 13th, 2017
| Session IV: Asteroid and Comets |
| Chairs: Sascha Kempf and Mark Showalter |
| 9:00 | *Addie | Dove | The surface properties of asteroids | slides |
| 10:00 | Tom | Kehoe | Extracting asteroid regolith properties from solar system dust bands | slides |
| 10:20 | Rosemary | Killen | Exospheric escape: A parametrical study | slides |
| 10:40 | Hairong | Lai | Nanodust released in interplanetary collisions | slides |
| 11:00 | Break | |||
| 11:20 | *Vicky | Hamilton | The OSIRIS-REX asteroid sample return mission | slides |
| 12:20 | Michaela | Villarreal | Energetic electrons as evidence for a temporary bow shock at Ceres | slides |
| 12:40 | Fabrice | Cipriani | Simulation of dusty plasma environments: Application cases to 65803 Didymos for the Asteroid Impact Mission (AIM) and Rosetta electrostatic sheath interaction with cometary grains | slides |
| 13:00 | Lunch | |||
| 14:30 | *Jim | Burch | Interaction of the solar wind with comet CG | slides |
| Session V: Discussion on future investigations and publications |
| Chairs: Mihály Horányi and Alan Stern |
| 15:30 | Everyone | Open Discussion |
Posters
Program Committee
The workshop is hosted by M. Horányi and A. Stern, and supported by NASA's Solar System Exploration Research Virtual Institute (SSERVI): Institute for Modeling Plasma, Atmospheres, and Cosmic Dust (IMPACT), the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP), and the Center for Integrated Plasma Studies (CIPS) of the University of Colorado.
Invited Talks
Current invited talks include:
Surface Properties of Asteroids: Dan Britt/U. Central Florida and SSERVI
Rosetta Results on Cometary Plasmas: Jim Burch/SwRI
Physical Plasma Environment of the Moon: Jasper Halekas/U. Iowa
Osiris Rex: Vicky Hamilton/SwRI
Europa Dust Environment: Sascha Kempf/U. Colorado and SSERVI
Search for the dust torus around Mars: Mark Showalter/SETI
Dust Environment of the Moon: Jamey Szalay/SwRI
Mars, Phobos, Deimos Dust environment: Alexander Zakharov/ITEP Moscow
About Boulder
General information about Boulder, hotels, and travel can be found by following this link, Visitor Information.
Additionally, the Best Western Plus Boulder Inn has offered discounted rooms for $119 a night from Tuesday, Jan 10th to Friday, Jan 13th. If you wish to take advantage of this deal please reserve a room by Dec. 21st by calling 800-233-8469 and referencing the "DAP 2017" conference. More information about the hotel can be found here.