Dynamic Response of the Environment At the Moon

Goddard's DREAM Center for Lunar Studies

DREAM is a virtual institute incorporating over 20 Investigators from over 10 Academic and Government Centers. DREAM IS:

A theory, modeling, data validation effort of the solar-lunar environment connection
Answering "how does the highly-variable solar energy and matter incident at the surface interface affect the dynamics of lunar volatiles, ionosphere, plasma, and dust?"
Emphasizing the dynamics-solar storms and impacts at the Moon
A modeling center that maintains, advances and integrates state-of-the-art neutral, plasma, and surface interaction models
Sponsored by NASA's Lunar Science Institute (NLSI) Headquarted out of Ames Research Center Moffett Field CA, 94035

DREAM NEWS

Workshop Without Walls: Lunar Volatiles Schedule May 20, 2013

The schedule for the NLSI Lunar Volatiles Workshop without Walls is now posted on the NLSI website. The Science Organizing Committee hopes you can join virtually on May 21-23, 7:30 am - 1:15 pm PDT (1030 am -415 pm EDT) to learn the latest in lunar volatiles.

DREAM scientists identify new sources of lunar pickup ions using ARTEMIS in the geomagnetic tail May 9, 2013

Led by postdoc Andrew Poppe at the University of California at Berkeley, DREAM scientists have used recent data from NASA's twin probe ARTEMIS (Acceleration, Reconnection, Turbulence, and Electrodynamics of the Moon's Interaction with the Sun) mission to investigate the thin neutral atmosphere surrounding the Moon by looking at the trajectories of ions originating from the lunar atmosphere. These ions were detected by ARTEMIS while the Moon crossed Earth's geomagnetic tail, where the Moon is protected from the energetic blast of solar wind particles.

NLSI to host upcoming Workshop Without Walls on Lunar Volatiles May 1, 2013

DREAM co-I Dana Hurley is one of the science organizers of the upcoming workshop. Participation in the workshop is open to all members of the international research community. The workshop presentations will be streamed live on AdobeConnect. During the event, questions can be submitted online or through call-in audio. The entire workshop will be recorded and archived on the NLSI website. The workshop will take place over three half-day intervals from May 21-23, 2013.
See http://lunarscience.nasa.gov/articles/nlsi-workshop-without-walls-lunar-volatiles-part-1/ for more details.

Leaping Lunar Dust March 14, 2013

LRO image across the north rim of Cabeus Crater

Electrically charged lunar dust near shadowed craters can get lofted above the surface and jump over the shadowed region, bouncing back and forth between sunlit areas on opposite sides, according to new calculations by NASA scientists.

The research is being led by Michael Collier at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md., as part of the Dynamic Response of the Environment At the Moon (DREAM) team in partnership with the NASA Lunar Science Institute (NLSI), managed at NASA's Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif.

NLSI South Pole - Aitken Basin Focus Group develops unique data base February 14, 2013

The NLSI SPA Focus Group developed a new visualization tool for examining this basin region of great interest. See: http://lunarscience.nasa.gov/articles/south-pole-aitken-basin-landing-site-database/

Solicitation for LADEE Guest Investigator Program January 13, 2013

This solicitation is for investigations in the LADEE Guest Investigator Program (GIP). The goals of the program are to: a) enhance the scientific return from the LADEE mission by broadening participation in the mission and b) augment the existing LADEE science team to include new members conducting investigations that broaden and/or complement the funded Principal Investigator (PI) and Co-Investigator (Co-I)-led investigations, thus maximizing the contribution of LADEE to the future exploration and scientific understanding of the Moon.