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Team ID: H4-04

Team Title:
Mars Space Weather Requirements

Team Lead: Gina DiBraccio (NASA GSFC, USA), gina.a.dibraccio@nasa.gov
Co-Team Leads:
Beatriz Sanchez-Cano (University of Leicester, UK), bscmdr1@leicester.ac.uk
Claudio Corti (NASA/NSF/CCMC, USA), corti@hawaii.edu
Leila Mays (NASA/NSF/CCMC, USA), m.leila.mays@nasa.gov

Keywords (Impact):
(Aero)space assets functions, Human exploration


Keywords (Other):

Keywords (Activity Type):
Requirements

Introduction:
The Mars Space Weather Requirements team will gather requirements for the safety of astronauts and robotic assets necessary for Mars exploration.  Requirements are critical to guide the community toward targeted development of space weather instruments and models. The team will explore existing knowledge of hazards and risk conditions for Mars missions, covering all mission phases based on historical data from past and current robotic missions. The team will cover a wide breadth of impacts on various systems (communication, power delivery, electronics) that can occur on spacecraft, landers, and rovers related to all space weather and atmospheric conditions.  Working with the modeling challenge team, this group will use simulations of specific scenarios to understand which environmental parameters are more relevant for certain impacts, in order to provide quantitative estimates.

Objectives:
• The first outcome of this project will be a community-led paper identifying the current status and gaps in the knowledge of space weather phenomena and impacts on Mars (both in orbit and on ground) and their interplay with Martian atmospheric weather (e.g., dust storms), including a comparison with the lunar environment.
Possible outline of the paper:

    1. Introduction and ISWAT H4-04 Team Goals
    2. Mars Environment [in each subsection we can identify which specific environment is more relevant for which phase mission, for both humans and robots]
        a. Sun – Mars Interaction [solar flux, solar wind, pickup ions, energetic particles, meteors (including Jupiter’s effect on asteroids’ orbits)]
        b. Magnetosphere and Ionosphere [origin, interactions with solar wind, boundaries]
        c. Atmosphere, Dust, and Terrain [includes dust from ground and meteors]
    3. Space Weather at Mars
        a. Review of Observations and Physical Phenomena [response of Mars system to solar events]
        b. Impacts: Communications, Radiation Dose, Electrical Systems [possibly GICs?]
        c. Modeling of Environment and Impacts
    4. Weather at Mars
        a. Review of Observations and Physical Phenomena
        b. Impacts: Dust Storms
        c. Interplay with Space Weather [seasonal and diurnal variations of atmospheric depth and water content affect energy thresholds for SEPs and GCRs]
        d. Modeling of Environment and Impacts
    5. Moon – Mars Comparison
        a. Moon Environment
        b. Space Weather Impacts [main differences: no magnetosphere, albedo and charging at the surface]
        c. Modeling of Environment and Impacts
    6. Observational and Modeling Gaps for Impact Mitigation
        a. Observations
        b. Modeling
        c. Requirements for Human and Robotic Missions


Action Topics:
TBD


Cluster with overlapping topics:
H3: Radiation Environment in Heliosphere

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Amanda Brecht (NASA/AMES, USA)
Lihui Chai (Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences)
Phillip Chamberlin (LASP (Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics), USA)
Krishnaprasad Chirakkil (Physical Research Laboratory, Ahmedabad, India)
Fabrice Cipriani (ESA/ESTEC, NETHERLANDS)
Claudio Corti (NASA/NSF Community Coordinated Modeling Center (CCMC), USA)
Matteo Crismani (California State University, San Bernardino)
Iannis Dandouras (CNRS - The French National Centre for Scientific Research, FRANCE)
Gina DiBraccio (NASA/GSFC, USA)
Chuanfei Dong (Princeton University, USA)
Eduard Dubinin (Max-Planck Institute for Solar System Research, Germany)
Jared Espley (NASA/GSFC, USA)
Xiaohua Fang (University of Colorado, LASP - Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, USA)
Matthew Fillingim (University of California, Berkeley)
Christopher Fowler (West Virginia University, USA)
Yoshifumi Futaana (Swedish Institute of Space Physics, SWEDEN)
Jiawei Gao (Boston University, USA)
Jingnan Guo (University of Science and Technology, China)
Yuki Harada (Nagoya University, JAPAN)
Mats Holmstrom (Swedish Institute of Space Physics, SWEDEN)
Brian Jackson (Boise State University)
Simon Joyce (University of Leicester, UK)
Salman Khaksari (Christian-Albrechts-Universität Kiel, GERMANY)
Lengying Khoo (Princeton University, USA)
James Klimchuk (NASA/GSFC, USA)
Christina Lee (UC Berkeley - University of California Berkeley)
Mark Lester (University of Leicester, UK)
Mike Liemohn (University of Michigan, USA)
Robert Lillis (University of California, Berkeley)
Jan Leo Löwe (University of Kiel, GERMANY)
M. Leila Mays (NASA/NSF Community Coordinated Modeling Center (CCMC), USA)
Majd Mayyasi (Boston University, USA)
Joseph Minow (NASA/MSFC, USA)
Yuki Nakamura (University of Tokyo, Japan)
Teresa Nieves-Chinchilla (NASA/GSFC/M2M - Moon to Mars Space Weather Analysis Office, USA)
Erika Palmerio (Predictive Science Inc., USA)
Martin Pätzold (Freies Institut für Planetenforschung Köln)
David Pawlowski (Eastern Michigan University, USA)
Catherine Regan (West Virginia University, USA)
Laura Rodriguez-Garcia (ESA/ESAC - European Space Agency, Spain)
Michelangelo Romano (CUA - Catholic University of America, USA)
Zhaojin Rong (Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences)
Beatriz Sanchez-Cano (University of Leicester, UK)
Nick Schneider (University of Colorado, LASP - Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, USA)
Dibyendu Sur (CUA/NASA/GSFC, USA)
Robert Wimmer-Schweingruber (University of Kiel, GERMANY)
Olivier Witasse (ESA/ESTEC, NETHERLANDS)
Shaosui Xu (University of California, Berkeley)
Chi Zhang (Boston University, USA)
Yihua Zheng (NASA/NSF Community Coordinated Modeling Center (CCMC), USA)