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| The ROSES 2022
Laboratory Analysis of Returned Samples (LARS) Program
Appendix C.16
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Notice: This program element does not have a proposal due date. Proposals may be submitted at any time, pending certain eligibility timing issues related to resubmissions and duplicate proposal
avoidance. See
Section 4 for further information.
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Special note on Hayabusa2 (H2): JAXA has published its catalog of H2 samples returned from asteroid Ryugu available for allocation. See
Section 2.1.4.
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The goal of the Laboratory Analysis of Returned Samples (LARS) Program is to maximize the science derived from planetary sample-return missions. Activities supported by LARS fall into
two categories: (1) development of laboratory instrumentation and/or advanced techniques required for the analysis of returned samples; (2) direct analysis of samples already returned
to Earth.
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All proposed work must be in support of the overarching goals of the Planetary Science Research Program to help ascertain the content, origin, and evolution of the Solar System
and the potential for life elsewhere, consistent with the strategy for Planetary Science Exploration embodied in
Science 2020-2024: A Vision for Scientific Excellence(formerly known as the Science Plan).
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Proposals to develop laboratory instrumentation or advanced techniques are solicited to develop new analytical instrumentation or combinations of analytical instruments, or new
components of analytical instruments, leading to significant improvements in the precision, resolution, or sensitivity of measurements compared to the existing state of the art, and to
enable new types of measurements. Also solicited are proposals for the development of new analytical techniques for existing instrumentation that will push the limits of current technology.
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Proposals are solicited to conduct analytical studies of astro materials already returned by planetary missions.
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| Mission |
Links for More Information |
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| OSIRIS-REx |
The OSIRIS-REx Mission Page |
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See
Section 2.2.2 of this Program Element for additional potential missions. |
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| LARS does not support work principally relevant to past lunar sample-return missions, work to study returned space-flown hardware that has been exposed to micrometeorite
impacts, unless associated with one of the missions listed in
Section 2.1 of this Program Element, research on astromaterials collected on Earth (e.g., meteorites, micrometeorites, cosmic dust) unless these analyses are directly in support of the analysis
of currently available mission-returned samples or are needed as part of a development effort, or efforts to develop instruments for flight on planetary missions or efforts to to develop instruments
for flight on planetary missions.
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| The standard rule for use of mission data has been that unless otherwise specified, spacecraft mission data to be used in proposed work must be available in the
Planetary Data System (PDS), or an equivalent, publicly accessible, archive, at least 30 days prior to the full proposal due date. For No Due Date (NoDD) programs the 30-day rule applies to the
submission date of the proposal rather than the due date. The calendar of record for data released in
the PDS is the PDS Data Release Calendar.
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| Please refer to
Section 4 of program element C.1 for a detailed list of the data and astromaterials resources and
facilities available to proposers to this program element, and how to use them.
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| Data Management Plans (DMP) are
mandatory for this program element and must be placed in a special section no longer than two pages in length, immediately following the References and Citations section for
the Scientific/Technical/Management portion of the proposal. See
C.1, Section 3.7 for further information.
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| Proposals submitted to this Program Element must follow all formatting requirements that are described in program element
C.1 and
Section IV(b)ii of the ROSES Summary of Solicitation.
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