Formation Of The Solar System Research Articles

Science Goals and Mission Objectives for the Future Exploration of Ice Giants Systems: a Horizon 2061 Perspective — Part I: From Science Questions to Measurement Requirements

Whitepaper #224 submitted to the Planetary Science and Astrobiology Decadal Survey 2023-2032. Topics: giant planets systems; habitability and water; solar system formation, dynamics processes, and chronology

Architectures and Technologies for a Space Telescope for Solar System Science

Whitepaper #363 submitted to the Planetary Science and Astrobiology Decadal Survey 2023-2032. Topics: other planetary bodies: Venus, Primitive Bodies, and Giant Plane[...]; other science themes: Solar system formation, Atmospheric/exos[...]; ground- and space-based telescopes

Prospects to study the Ice Giants with the ngVLA

Whitepaper #063 submitted to the Planetary Science and Astrobiology Decadal Survey 2023-2032. Topics: atmospheric/exospheric evolution; giant planets systems; solar system formation, dynamics processes, and chronology

Sample Return from the Moon’s South Pole-Aitken Basin

Whitepaper #290 submitted to the Planetary Science and Astrobiology Decadal Survey 2023-2032. Topics: interior evolution and volcanism; Mercury and/or the Moon; solar system formation, dynamics processes, and chronology

Dust Measurements from Interstellar Probe: Exploring the Zodiacal Cloud and the Interstellar Dust Environment

Whitepaper #056 submitted to the Planetary Science and Astrobiology Decadal Survey 2023-2032. Topics: other planetary bodies: Dust; primitive bodies; solar system formation, dynamics processes, and chronology

Geochronology as a Framework for Inner Solar System History and Evolution

Whitepaper #020 submitted to the Planetary Science and Astrobiology Decadal Survey 2023-2032. Topics: laboratory studies; solar system formation, dynamics processes, and chronology; technology development

The scientific rationale for deployment of a long-lived geophysical network on the Moon

Whitepaper #098 submitted to the Planetary Science and Astrobiology Decadal Survey 2023-2032. Topics: interior evolution and volcanism; Mercury and/or the Moon; solar system formation, dynamics processes, and chronology

Assessing the Present-Day Impact Flux to the Lunar Surface Via Impact Flash Monitoring and Its Implications for Sustained Lunar Exploration

Whitepaper #200 submitted to the Planetary Science and Astrobiology Decadal Survey 2023-2032. Topics: planetary defense; Mercury and/or the Moon; solar system formation, dynamics processes, and chronology

Interplanetary and interstellar dust as windows into solar system origins and evolution.

Whitepaper #122 submitted to the Planetary Science and Astrobiology Decadal Survey 2023-2032. Topics: other science themes: interplanetary and interstellar dust; primitive bodies; solar system formation, dynamics processes, and chronology

MoonShake: A Future Lunar Seismic Network Delivered by Penetrators

Whitepaper #219 submitted to the Planetary Science and Astrobiology Decadal Survey 2023-2032. Topics: interior evolution and volcanism; Mercury and/or the Moon; solar system formation, dynamics processes, and chronology

New Approaches to Lunar Ice Detection and Mapping

Whitepaper #251 submitted to the Planetary Science and Astrobiology Decadal Survey 2023-2032. Topics: habitability and water; Mercury and/or the Moon; solar system formation, dynamics processes, and chronology

Mercury sample return to revolutionize our understanding of the solar system

Whitepaper #042 submitted to the Planetary Science and Astrobiology Decadal Survey 2023-2032. Topics: interior evolution and volcanism; Mercury and/or the Moon; solar system formation, dynamics processes, and chronology

Mercury’s Low Reflectance Material — Evidence for Graphite Flotation in a Magma Ocean?

Whitepaper #265 submitted to the Planetary Science and Astrobiology Decadal Survey 2023-2032. Topics: interior evolution and volcanism; Mercury and/or the Moon; solar system formation, dynamics processes, and chronology

The Underexplored Frontier of Ice Giant Interiors and Dynamos

Whitepaper #233 submitted to the Planetary Science and Astrobiology Decadal Survey 2023-2032. Topics: giant planets systems; solar system formation, dynamics processes, and chronology; theory, computation, and modeling

The Importance of Continuing Solar System-Wide Impact Crater Studies

Whitepaper #197 submitted to the Planetary Science and Astrobiology Decadal Survey 2023-2032. Topics: surface/geological evolution; other science themes: Impact cratering - All Aspects of Study; solar system formation, dynamics processes, and chronology

Gas Giant and Ice Giant Atmospheres: Focused Questions for 2023-2032

Whitepaper #275 submitted to the Planetary Science and Astrobiology Decadal Survey 2023-2032. Topics: atmospheric/exospheric evolution; giant planets systems; solar system formation, dynamics processes, and chronology

Priority Questions for Jupiter System Science in the 2020s and Opportunities for Europa Clipper

Whitepaper #234 submitted to the Planetary Science and Astrobiology Decadal Survey 2023-2032. Topics: atmospheric/exospheric evolution; giant planets systems; solar system formation, dynamics processes, and chronology

Active Primordial Bodies: Exploration of the primordial composition of ice-rich planetesimals and early-stage evolution in the outer solar system

Whitepaper #296 submitted to the Planetary Science and Astrobiology Decadal Survey 2023-2032. Topics: surface/geological evolution; primitive bodies; solar system formation, dynamics processes, and chronology

The Chronology Problem in the Outer Solar System: Constraining the “WHEN” of Major Dynamical and Geological Events

Whitepaper #147 submitted to the Planetary Science and Astrobiology Decadal Survey 2023-2032. Topics: ocean worlds; other science themes: chronology; solar system formation, dynamics processes, and chronology

Lunar X-ray Imaging Spectrometer (LuXIS)

Whitepaper #362 submitted to the Planetary Science and Astrobiology Decadal Survey 2023-2032. Topics: surface/geological evolution; Mercury and/or the Moon; solar system formation, dynamics processes, and chronology