A Proposed Discovery Mission
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D. SCIENCE
D.6. Science and Mission Teams
The Europa Ice Clipper Team will consist of the PI, the project manager (to be selected by JPL), the industrial representative, and co-investigators. Each of the principle participants has well-defined roles as described below. During the feasibility phase of this investigation an oversight committee composed of the PI, and a senior representative from JPL (C. Elachi) and the industrial partner (N. Hinners) may change the composition of the team as needed to achieve the mission objectives.
Chris McKay, NASA Ames (PI); will be involved with, and have fundamental responsibility for, all aspects of the mission. He will be especially involved in the education and outreach activities.
Henry Harris, JPL (PM), will be involved in the impactor development and the educational and public outreach. He has been the proposal manager and the JPL point of contact. He, or his JPL appointed replacement, will be responsible for the mission implementation at JPL.
Ben Clark, Lockheed-Martin (Ind. Rep., Co-I), will be the representative for the Lockheed Martin portion of the proposal. In addition, as an accomplished planetary scientist, he will play a "deputy-PI" role in the overall science analysis and coordinate the science instruments.
Tom Ahrens, Cal Tech, will be responsible for the development of the model of the impact, associated experiments, and the analysis of the plume results.
Jim Lyons, Cal Tech, will be involved in the plume analysis and the organic analysis.
Dave Pieri, JPL, will be the head of the imaging team.
G. Edward Danielson, Cal Tech, will be responsible for the design and production of the camera.
Jochen Kissel, Max-Planck Inst. Kernphysik, will be responsible for the dust analysis instrument. This instrument will be build in the US (at JPL or at a suitable firm) under the direction and guidance Jochen Kissel. He will oversee its operation in flight, and data analysis.
Huy Tran, NASA Ames, will be responsible for the entry analysis and will work with LMA in the heat shield design.
Kevin D. McKeegan, UCLA, will be responsible for the analysis of D/H and O isotopes on the returned sample.
Norbert Thonnard, University of Tennessee, will be jointly responsible for the development and construction of the Active Volatiles Collector.
Charles M. Hohenberg, Washington University, will be jointly responsible for the development and construction of the Active Volatiles.
Maureen Bell, Cornell University, will be part of the imaging team and will also be responsible for surface analysis.
Peter Tsou, JPL, will be responsible for the aerogel collector.
David Bender, JPL, will be responsible for mission scenarios and trajectories.
Ted Sweetser, JPL, will be responsible for navigation and trajectories through the impact plume.
Jeff Bada, UCSD, will be part of the surface analysis and returned sample team. He will contribute to the analysis of the organics.
Steve Squyres, Cornell University, will be part of the imaging team, and will participate in the site selection for the impact site.
[NOTE: This proposal was submitted several months ago] Carl Sagan, Cornell University, will be involved in the educational and public outreach and will be part of the surface analysis and imaging teams.
James Cutts, JPL, will participate in the overall mission design and technology integration. He will also be involved in the impact targeting, and image analysis and interpretation.
Mahadeva Sinha, JPL, will be the the JPL representative for the instrument integration.
Fraser Fanale, University of Hawaii, will assist in the design of the sampling devices.
Torrence Johnson, JPL, will be a member of the imaging team.
Gene Shoemaker, USGS, will be a member of the imaging team.