NASA's Solar System Treks - Tools for Science and Exploration
Abstract
NASA's Solar System Treks online portals for lunar and planetary mapping and modeling provide web-based suites of interactive visualization and analysis tools to enable mission planners, planetary scientists, students, and the general public to access mapped data products from past and current missions for a growing number of planetary bodies. As web-based toolsets, the portals do not require users to purchase or install any software beyond current web browsers. These portals are being used for site selection and analysis by NASA and a number of its international and commercial partners supporting upcoming missions.
During the past year, significant changes have been made to The Solar System Treks suite. New portals have been added and portals for a range of additional bodies are now in development. New visualization and analysis tools are being integrated. New data products have been ingested and new means of generating specific data products including image mosaics and DEMs have been implemented. There are now seven web portals in the program available to the public. This expanded list includes portals for the Moon, Mars, Vesta, Ceres, and Titan. Icy Moons Trek features seven of Saturn's smaller icy moons. The latest addition is the new Mercury Trek portal being developed in collaboration with JAXA in support of its role in the BepiColombo mission. New portals under development include Ryugu Trek (supporting JAXA's Hayabusa2 mission), Bennu Trek (supporting NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission), and Phobos Trek (supporting JAXA's planned MMX mission). All of these are unified under a new project home site with supporting content. While we are expanding the number of worlds covered by the project, we are paying special attention to the Moon and enhancing Moon Trek's capabilities supporting Artemis and CLPS. These include the addition of new data products and development of new analysis tools. We will highlight work being done with our Italian partners on the Lunar Laser Retroreflector Planning Tool, and our work with Valentin Bickel of the Max Planck Institute on Lunar Rockfall Detection. The presentation will provide an overview of the current status of the portals that have been released, provide previews of portals currently under development, highlight selected use cases, and solicit input for future products and enhancements.- Publication:
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AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts
- Pub Date:
- December 2019
- Bibcode:
- 2019AGUFM.P31C3488D
- Keywords:
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- 6205 Asteroids;
- PLANETARY SCIENCES: SOLAR SYSTEM OBJECTS;
- 6230 Martian satellites;
- PLANETARY SCIENCES: SOLAR SYSTEM OBJECTS;
- 6250 Moon;
- PLANETARY SCIENCES: SOLAR SYSTEM OBJECTS