The Lunar and Planetary Laboratory has been involved in almost every interplanetary spacecraft sent. These are some of the major ones that it was or is involved: •
OSIRIS-REx –
Asteroid – Responsible for the Principal Investigator, building the camera system, science operations, and Education and Public Outreach.. •
MAVEN –
Mars – Dr. Roger Yelle is an interdisciplinary scientist on the mission. •
Phoenix Scout Mission –
Mars – Responsible for the Principal Investigator, building the camera systems and the TEGA instrument, and for science operations on the surface of Mars. •
Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter –
Mars – Responsible for building and operating the
HiRISE camera, the largest aperture camera ever sent to another planet. •
Mars Global Surveyor –
Mars – Dr. Alfred McEwen is a participating scientist on the Mars Orbital Camera Team. Dr. Steve Bougher is a member of the MGS aerobraking team which is conducting aerobraking exercises (Fall 1997 and Fall 1998). •
Deep Space 2 –
Mars – One of the science team members was from the Lunar and Planetary Laboratory. •
Mars Odyssey –
Mars – Responsible for the
Gamma Ray Spectrometer, for building and maintaining it. •
Pioneer 10 –
Jupiter – Responsible for the IPP: The Imaging Photopolarimeter, for operating it. •
Pioneer 11 –
Jupiter and
Saturn – Responsible for the IPP: The Imaging Photopolarimeter, for operating it. •
Pioneer Venus –
Venus – Responsible for the LSFR: The Large Probe Solar Flux Radiometer, for calibrating and operating it. •
MESSENGER –
Mercury – Scientist participates in the Mercury Atmospheric and Surface Composition Spectrometer (MASCS). •
Galileo –
Jupiter – Built part of the ultraviolet spectrometer on board the spacecraft •
Cassini –
Saturn – Major team contributor. Responsible for taking and analyzing images of the surface of
Titan and
Enceladus. •
Deep Impact –
Comet Tempel 1 – LPL Scientist helped to run many of the simulations to ensure the spacecraft would reach its target. •
Mars Pathfinder –
Mars – Designed, integrated, and operated one of the cameras on the lander. •
Huygens Probe –
Saturn's moon Titan – The university built and operated the only camera on the probe, and is responsible for a number of movies that show the landing. See the LPL Huygens Site page for some more info, and the movies. •
Mars Polar Lander –
Mars – Built Thermal Evolved Gas Analyzer, a similar instrument is on the
Phoenix Scout Lander. •
Voyager –
Jupiter,
Saturn,
Uranus,
Neptune – Built and operated the Ultraviolet Spectrometer, and participated on the imaging team on the spacecraft. •
Ulysses –
Sun – Two scientists participated in the investigations of heliospheric cosmic ray physics and properties of the interplanetary medium. •
NEAR –
Near-Earth asteroid Eros – Participated in the X-Ray/Gamma-Ray Spectrometer (XGRS) science team. == Astronomical observations ==