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| The ROSES 2023
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
C.16, Section 4 and
C.1, Section 2.4 for further information.
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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 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, for example, by
the elimination of analytical interferences or contamination problems. In all cases, both
the development efforts and the clear relevance to NASA sample-return missions must
be documented.
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Proposals are solicited to conduct analytical studies of astro materials already returned by planetary missions.
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Links for More Information |
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| OSIRIS-REx |
The OSIRIS-REx Mission Page |
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See
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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
C.16, Section 2.1 , 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.
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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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| Proposals submitted to this program element must include an Open Science and Data Management Plan (OSDMP). See
Section 3.7 of C.1, the Planetary Science Research Program Overview for more 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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