Project Portfolio
Our projects develop and mature, to high technology readiness levels (TRL 6), innovative technologies for planetary science exploration.
Project Portfolio
Our projects develop and mature, to high technology readiness levels (TRL 6), innovative technologies for planetary science exploration. The portfolio prioritizes technology developments that enable smaller mass, lower power and more space environment resilient instruments for infusion into future planetary missions that will derive higher fidelity science.
All PESTO Related Projects are listed on TechPort through the link below.
https://techport.nasa.gov/searches/1582
Project Info | Proposal | PI | PI | Activity Title | Instrument/Platform | Taxonomy | Orbital/ | Destination | PI |
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DALI | 18-DALI18_2-0006 | Blake | David | XTRA: An ExTraterrestrial Regolith Analyzer for Lunar Soil History | Instrument | High energy (x-ray, g-ray, neutron, etc.) | Lander/Rover (on or within solid ground) | Earth’s Moon | NASA Ames Research Center |
DALI | 18-DALI18_2-0012 | Bailey | Samuel | Instrument | High | Lander/Rover (on or within solid ground) | Earth’s Moon | University of Arizona | |
DALI | 18-DALI18_2-0017 | Cohen | Barbara | Instrument | Seismometer | Lander/Rover (on or within solid ground) | Earth’s Moon | NASA Goddard Space Flight Center | |
DALI | 18-DALI18_2-0025 | Wang | Xu | Electrostatic Dust Analyzer (EDA) for Exploring Dust Transport Processes on the Lunar Surface | Instrument | Mass | Lander/Rover (on or within solid ground) | Earth’s Moon | University of Colorado |
DALI | 18-DALI18_2-0028 | Parsons | Ann | Maturation of the Bulk Elemental Composition Analyzer for Surface and Sub-surface Lunar Studies | Instrument | High | Lander/Rover (on or within solid ground) | Earth’s Moon | NASA Goddard Space Flight Center |
DALI | 18-DALI18_2-0029 | Yu | Nan | Instrument | Seismometer | Lander/Rover (on or within solid ground) | Earth’s Moon | Jet Propulsion Laboratory | |
DALI | 18-DALI18_2-0039 | Livengood | Timothy | Submillimeter Solar Observation Lunar Volatiles Experiment (SSOLVE) | Instrument | Mass | All | Earth’s Moon | University of Maryland |
DALI | 18-DALI18_2-0052 | Benna | Mehdi | Instrument | Seismometer | Lander/Rover (on or within solid ground) | Earth’s Moon | University of Maryland | |
DALI | 18-DALI18_2-0055 | Arevalo | Ricardo | CRATER: Characterization of Regolith And Trace Economic Resources | Instrument | Mass | Lander/Rover (on or within solid ground) | Earth’s Moon | University of Maryland |
DALI | 18-DALI18_2-0058 | Fraeman | Abigail | Instrument | Infrared | Lander/Rover (on or within solid ground) | Earth’s Moon | Jet Propulsion Laboratory | |
DALI | 19-DALI19-0035 | Rafkin | Scot | LASVEGAS on the Moon: A Hypertunable IR laser Spectrometer for the Analysis of Volatiles | Instrument | Mass | Lander/Rover (on or within solid ground) | Earth’s Moon | Southwest Research Institute |
DALI | 19-DALI19-0041 | Siegler | Matthew | Instrument | High | All | Earth’s Moon | Planetary Science Institute | |
DALI | 19-DALI19-0044 | Hurford | Terry | Development of the SUBLIME seismometer for future Lunar missions | Instrument | Seismometer | Lander/Rover (on or within solid ground) | Earth’s Moon | NASA Goddard Space Flight Center |
DALI | 19-DALI19-0048 | Madzunkov | Stojan | Instrument | Mass | Orbital/Flyby | Earth’s Moon | Jet Propulsion Laboratory | |
DALI | 19-DALI19-0051 | Lambert | James | Adapting the Compact Integrated Raman Spectrometer (CIRS) for Lunar Exploration | Instrument | Raman | Lander/Rover (on or within solid ground) | Earth’s Moon | Jet Propulsion Laboratory |
DALI | 20-DALI20-0009 | Hosseini | Seyedeh Sona | Instrument | Ultraviolet/ | Lander/Rover (on or within solid ground) | Earth’s Moon | Jet Propulsion Laboratory | |
DALI | 20-DALI20-0012 | Greenhagen | Benjamin | Instrument | Infrared | Lander/Rover (on or within solid ground) | Earth’s Moon | Johns Hopkins University/Applied Physics Lab | |
DALI | 20-DALI20-0032 | Nunez | Jorge | Advanced Multispectral Infrared Microimager (AMIM) For Lunar Surface Exploration | Instrument | Infrared | Lander/Rover (on or within solid ground) | Earth’s Moon | Johns Hopkins University/Applied Physics Lab |
DALI | 20-DALI20-0039 | Anderson | F. Scott | Preparing CDEX for flight to provide lunar elemental analysis and Rb-Sr dating | Instrument | Mass | Lander/Rover (on or within solid ground) | Earth’s Moon | Southwest Research Institute |
DALI | 20-DALI20-0043 | Patrick | Edward | Environmental Analysis of the Bounded Lunar Exosphere (ENABLE) | Instrument | Mass | Lander/Rover (on or within solid ground) | Earth’s Moon | Southwest Research Institute |
DALI | 21-DALI21-0006 | Horanyi | Mihaly | Instrument | Mass | Lander/Rover (on or within solid ground) | Earth’s Moon | University of Colorado Boulder | |
DALI | 21-DALI21-0008 | Schindhelm | Rebecca | Revelio: An Autonomous High Dynamic Range Camera for Polar Science and Exploration | Instrument | Imager | Lander/Rover (on or within solid ground) | Earth’s Moon | Ball Aerospace |
DALI | 21-DALI21-0017 | McDonough | William | Instrument | Mass | Lander/Rover (on or within solid ground) | Earth’s Moon | University of Maryland | |
DALI | 21-DALI21-0022 | Christensen | Lance | Instrument | Mass | Lander/Rover (on or within solid ground) | Earth’s Moon | Jet Propulsion Laboratory | |
DALI | 21-DALI21-0024 | Gorham | Peter | Instrument | High | Orbital/Flyby (from space) | Earth’s Moon | University of Hawaii Manoa | |
DALI | 22-DALI22-0007 | Carter | Lynn | Instrument | Radar/GPR | Orbital/Flyby (from space) | Earth’s Moon | University of Arizona | |
DALI | 22-DALI22-0008 | Blewett | David | Mahina Color Camera: Snapshot Multispectral Imaging for Lunar Science | Instrument | Imager | Lander/Rover (on or within solid ground) | Earth’s Moon | Johns Hopkins University/Applied Physics Lab |
DALI | 22-DALI22-0018 | Lucey | Paul | Instrument | LIDAR | Orbital/Flyby (from space) | Earth’s Moon | University of Hawaii | |
DALI | 22-DALI22-0038 | Achilles | Cherie | Instrument | High | Lander/Rover (on or within solid ground) | Earth’s Moon | University of Maryland | |
DALI | 22-DALI22-0042 | Retherford | Kurt | Lunar Raman Deep-Ultraviolet Visible Spectrograph (LR-DUV-VIS) | Instrument | Ultraviolet/ | Lander/Rover (on or within solid ground) | Earth’s Moon | Southwest Research |
DALI | 23-DALI23_2-0004 | George | Stuart | Instrument | Mass Spectrometry | Lander/Rover (on or within solid ground) | Earth’s Moon | NASA Johnson Space Center | |
DALI | 23-DALI23_2-0016 | Stillman | David | Instrument | Radar/GPR | Lander/Rover (on or within solid ground) | Earth’s Moon | Southwest Research Institute | |
DALI | 23-DALI23_2-0021 | Cao | Hao | A miniaturized, low-power magnetometer system for lunar surface observatories | Instrument | Magnetometer | Lander/Rover (on or within solid ground) | Earth’s Moon | UCLA |
DALI | 23-DALI23_2-0036 | Kriesel | Jason | Instrument | Mass Spectrometry | Lander/Rover (on or within solid ground) | Earth’s Moon | Opto-Knowledge Systems, Inc | |
DALI | 23-DALI23_2-0040 | Gillis- Davis | Jeffrey | Maturation of a Compact LIBS Spectrometer for Lunar Investigations | Instrument | Mass Spectrometry | Lander/Rover (on or within solid ground) | Earth’s Moon | Washington University |
DALI | 24-DALI24_2-0012 | Erwan | Mazarico | Swath-Mapping Lidar for Lunar Science and Exploration | Instrument | LIDAR | Orbital/Flyby (from space) | Earth’s Moon | NASA Goddard Space Flight Center |
DALI | 24-DALI24_2-0018 | Evan | Eshelman | Lunar Weather Array | Instrument | LIDAR | Lander/Rover (on or within solid ground) | Earth’s Moon | Honeybee Robotics |
DALI | 24-DALI24_2-0022 | Ryan | McCormick | Lunar Sample Manipulation and Containment for Sample Return | Instrument | Sampler/Extractor/ | Lander/Rover (on or within solid ground) | Earth’s Moon | Jet Propulsion Laboratory |
DALI | 24-DALI24_2-0001 | M. Nurul | Abedin | In-situ and Remote Characterization of Lunar Surface Using Standoff micro-Raman (SUCR) Sensor | Instrument | Raman | Lander/Rover (on or within solid ground) | Earth’s Moon | NASA Langley Research Center |
DALI | 24-DALI24_2-0017 | James | Lambert | A Lunar Spectroscopic Tool for Raman Analysis (LUSTRA) | Instrument | Raman | Lander/Rover | Earth’s Moon | Jet Propulsion Laboratory |
HOTTECH |
| Kremic | Tibor | Platform | Sensor | Lander/Rover (on or within solid ground) | Venus | NASA Glenn Research Center | |
HOTTECH |
| Schwartz | Joel | Platform | Power/Battery | Lander/Rover (on or within solid ground) | Venus | Jet Propulsion Laboratory | |
HOTTECH |
| Paul | Michael | Hot Operating Temperature Lithium combustion IN situ Energy and Power System (HOTLINE Power System) | Platform | Power/Battery | Lander/Rover (on or within solid ground) | Venus | Johns Hopkins University/Applied Physics Lab |
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| Makel | Darby | SiC Electronics To Enable Long-Lived Chemical Sensor Measurements at the Venus Surface | Platform | Electronics | Lander/Rover (on or within solid ground) | Venus | Makel Engineering, Inc. |
HOTTECH |
| Peltz | Leora | Field Emission Vacuum Electronic Devices for Operation above 500 degrees Celsius | Platform | Electronics | Lander/Rover (on or within solid ground) | Venus | Boeing |
HOTTECH |
| Nemanich | Robert | High Temperature Diamond Electronics for Actuators and Sensors | Platform | Electronics | Lander/Rover (on or within solid ground) | Venus | Arizona State University |
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| Kumar | Jitendra | High Energy, Long Cycle Life, and Extreme Temperature Lithium Sulfur Battery for Venus Missions | Platform | Power/Battery | Lander/Rover (on or within solid ground) | Venus | University of Dayton |
HOTTECH |
| Zhao | Yuji | Platform | Electronics | Lander/Rover (on or within solid ground) | Venus | Arizona State University | |
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| Bugga | Ratnakumar | Platform | Power/Battery | Lander/Rover (on or within solid ground) | Venus | Jet Propulsion Laboratory | |
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| Neudeck | Phil | High Temperature Memory Electronics for Long-Lived Venus Missions | Platform | Memory | Lander/Rover (on or within solid ground) | Venus | NASA Glenn Research Center |
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| Grandidier | Jonathan | Low Intensity High Temperature (LIHT) Solar Cells for Venus Exploration Mission | Platform | Power/Battery | Lander/Rover (on or within solid ground) | Venus | Jet Propulsion Laboratory |
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| Senesky | Debbie | Passively Compensated Low-Power Chip-Scale Clocks for Wireless Communication in Harsh Environments | Platform | Electronics | Lander/Rover (on or within solid ground) | Venus | Stanford University |
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| Zacny | Kris | Development of a TRL6 Electric Motor and Position Sensor for Venus | Platform | Actuator | Lander/Rover (on or within solid ground) | Venus | Honeybee Robotics |
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| Ang | Simon | 500°C Capable, Weather-Resistant Electronics Packaging for Extreme Environment Exploration | Platform | Packaging | Lander/Rover (on or within solid ground) | Venus | University of Arkansas |
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| Mumm | Erik | Platform | Actuator | Lander/Rover (on or within solid ground) | Venus | Honeybee Robotics Spacecraft Mechanisms Corporation | |
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| Ohodnicki | Paul | Advanced Co-Based Nanocrystalline Soft Magnetics for Extreme Temperature Inductor Applications | Platform | Electronics | Lander/Rover (on or within solid ground) | Venus | University of Pittsburgh |
HOTTECH |
| Sadwick | Laurence | A High Temperature Transmitter for Venus Surface Environment | Platform | Transmitter | Lander/Rover (on or within solid ground) | Venus | InnoSys, Inc. |
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| Andarawis | Emad | Platform | Sensor | Lander/Rover (on or within solid ground) | Venus | GE Research | |
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| Neudeck | Phil | Non-Volatile, Low Power, and High Density SiC Memory For Future Venus Missions | Platform | Memory | Lander/Rover (on or within solid ground) | Venus | NASA Glenn Research Center |
HOTTECH | Centeno-Gomez | Diana | HOTTech-21 Electronics Fabrication Restoration | Platform | Electronics | Lander/Rover (on or within solid ground) | Venus |
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MATISSE | 18-MATISE18_2-0003 | Dasgupta | Purnendu | Ion/Liquid Chromatography for Exploration of Solar System (ILCESS) | Instrument | Chemical methods (sensors, chromatography, microfluidics, etc.) | All | All planetary bodies | University Of Texas, Arlington |
MATISSE | 18-MATISE18_2-0006 | Chattopadhyay | Goutam | Water Hunting Advanced Terahertz Spectrometer on a Ultra-small Platform (WHATSUP) | Instrument | Sub-mm/THz/microwave | Orbital/Flyby (from space) | Comets | Jet Propulsion Laboratory |
MATISSE | 18-MATISE18_2-0008 | Paik | Ho Jung | Instrument | Gravitometer | Orbital/Flyby (from space) | All planetary bodies | University of Maryland | |
MATISSE | 18-MATISE18_2-0020 | Carter | Lynn | Instrument | Radar/GPR | Orbital/Flyby (from space) | Mars | University Of Arizona | |
MATISSE | 18-MATISE18_2-0026 | Cooper | Ken | Instrument | Atmospheric probe | Lander/Rover (on or within solid ground) | Mars | Jet Propulsion Laboratory | |
MATISSE | 18-MATISE18_2-0029 | Sun | Xiaoli | Swath Mapping Lidar with Fiber Lasers and PN Code Modulation | Instrument | LIDAR | Orbital/Flyby (from space) | Asteroids | NASA Goddard Space Flight Center |
MATISSE | 18-MATISE18_2-0030 | Rafkin | Scot | Maturation of a Hypertunable IR Laser Spectrometer for In Situ Planetary Exploration | Instrument | Infrared | Lander/Rover (on or within solid ground) | Icy Moons | Southwest Research Institute |
MATISSE | 18-MATISE18_2-0034 | Sobron | Pablo | Instrument | Raman | Lander/Rover (on or within solid ground) | All planetary bodies | SETI Institute | |
MATISSE | 20-MATISSE202-0006 | Banfield | Don | Instrument | Atmospheric probe | Lander/Rover (on or within solid ground) | Mars | NASA Ames Research Center | |
MATISSE | 20-MATISSE202-0024 | Anderson | Carrie | V-WiSHeS: Venus Wideband Submillimeter Heterodyne Spectrometer | Instrument | Sub-mm/THz/microwave | Orbital/Flyby (from space) | Venus | NASA Goddard Space Flight Center |
MATISSE | 20-MATISSE202-0032 | Kenyon | Matt | Instrument | Thermal Infrared | Orbital/Flyby (from space) | Gas giants (Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune) | Jet Propulsion Laboratory | |
MATISSE | 20-MATISSE202-0045 | Southard | Adrian | Instrument | Ice/Regolith Sampler | Lander/Rover (on or within solid ground) | Icy Moons | Universities Space Research Association | |
MATISSE | 20-MATISSE202-0069 | Yu | Nan | Instrument | Gravitometer | Orbital/Flyby (from space) | All with atmospheres | Jet Propulsion Laboratory | |
MATISSE | 22-MATISE22_2-0014 | Gasda | Patrick | OrganiCam: A Light-Weight Standoff Time-Resolved Fluorescence Imager and Raman Spectrometer | Instrument | Ultraviolet/ Visible | Lander/Rover (on or within solid ground) | Mars,Comets,Asteroids | Triad National Security, LLC |
MATISSE | 22-MATISE22_2-0018 | DellaGiustina | Daniella | Instrument | Seismometer | Lander/Rover (on or within solid ground) | All planetary bodies,Comets,Asteroids,Dwarf planets (Ceres, Pluto, KBOs) | University Of Arizona | |
MATISSE | 22-MATISE22_2-0019 | Quinn | Richard | Instrument | Microscopy | All | Icy Moons | NASA Ames Research Center | |
MATISSE | 22-MATISE22_2-0023 | Brinckerhoff | William | Extraterrestrial Molecular Indicators of Life Investigation (EMILI) | Instrument | Mass Spectrometry | Lander/Rover (on or within solid ground) | All airless planetary bodies,Comets,Asteroids,Dwarf planets (Ceres, Pluto, KBOs),Icy moons,Mars | NASA Goddard Space Flight Center |
MATISSE | 22-MATISE22_2-0043 | Banfield | Don | Instrument | Dust/Saltation probe | Lander/Rover (on or within solid ground) | Earth Moon,Titan,Mars | NASA Ames Research Center | |
MATISSE | 24-MATISE24_2-0011 | Atchison | Justin | OpGrav – Precise Small Body Mass Measurements during High-Speed Flybys | Instrument | Gravitometer | Orbital/Flyby (from space) | Asteroids and small moons, Comets | The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory |
MATISSE | 24-MATISE24_2-0015 | Seto | Emily | Sterilizing Heat Infrared Emitting LED Device (SHIELD) | Instrument | Planetary Protection | All | All airless planetary bodies | Honeybee Robotics LLC |
MATISSE | 24-MATISE24_2-0017 | Wilhelm | Mary Beth | ExCALiBR: Extractor for Chemical Analysis of Lipid Biomarkers in Regolith | Instrument | Sampler/Extractor/ Separator | Lander/Rover (on or within solid ground) | Mars | NASA Ames Research Center |
MATISSE | 24-MATISE24_2-0027 | Quinn | Richard | MICA: Microfluidic Icy-World Chemistry Analyzer | Instrument | Chemical methods (sensors, chromatography, microfluidics, etc.) | All | Icy Moons | NASA Ames Research Center |
MATISSE | 24-MATISE24_2-0036 | Butterworth | Anna | Plume Ice Capture of Organics (PICO): Sample collection for in situ biosignature analyses. | Instrument | Sampler/Extractor/ Separator | Orbital/Flyby (from space) | Icy Moons | University of California, Berkeley |
MATISSE | 24-MATISE24_2-0043 | Nemchick | Deacon | CMOS-Based Millimeter-Wave Spectrometer for in-situ Sensing Applications | Instrument | Sub-mm/THz/microwave | Lander/Rover (on or within solid ground) | Comets, Icy moons | Jet Propulsion Laboratory |
PICASSO | 16-PICASO16_2-0002 | Sava | Paul | Instrument | Seismometer | Orbital/Flyby (from space) | Asteroids | Colorado School of Mines | |
PICASSO | 16-PICASO16_2-0095 | Sun | Xiaoli | Linear Mode Photon Counting HgCdTe Avalanche Photodiode Arrays for Multi-beam Laser Altimeters | Instrument | LIDAR | Orbital/Flyby (from space) | All planetary bodies | NASA Goddard Space Flight Center |
PICASSO | 17-PICASO17_2-0025 | Webster | Chris | Subtraction Imaging as a Game-Changer for Planetary Tunable Laser Spectrometer Performance | Instrument | Infrared | All | All planetary bodies | Jet Propulsion Laboratory |
PICASSO | 17-PICASO17_2-0029 | Yee | Karl | Instrument | Seismometer | Lander/Rover (on or within solid ground) | All planetary bodies | Jet Propulsion Laboratory | |
PICASSO | 17-PICASO17_2-0030 | Aslam | Shahid | Advanced Net Flux Radiometer Focal Plane Assembly for Ice Giants | Instrument | Thermal Infrared | Lander/Rover (on or within solid ground) | Gas giants (Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune) | NASA Goddard Space Flight Center |
PICASSO | 17-PICASO17_2-0037 | Drouin | Brian | Instrument | Sub-mm/THz/microwave | Lander/Rover (on or within solid ground) | Comets | Jet Propulsion Laboratory | |
PICASSO | 17-PICASO17_2-0048 | Bagheri | Mahmood | Electrically pumped mid-IR optical frequency combs for dual frequency spectroscopy | Instrument | Chemical methods (sensors, chromatography, microfluidics, etc.) | All planetary surface (anything on planetary body except in-space) | All planetary bodies with atmospheres | Jet Propulsion Laboratory |
PICASSO | 17-PICASO17_2-0058 | Drew | Howard | Instrument | Sub-mm/THz/microwave | All planetary surface (anything on planetary body except in-space) | Icy moons | University of Maryland | |
PICASSO | 17-PICASO17_2-0083 | Molyneux | Phliippa | Development of far-UV-sensitive silicon imaging arrays for compact UV instrumentation | Instrument | Ultraviolet/ Visible | Orbital/Flyby (from space) | All planetary bodies | Southwest Research Institute |
PICASSO | 17-PICASO17_2-0089 | Hartzell | Christine | In-Situ Cohesion Quantification and Sample Collection Through Electrostatic Lofting | Instrument | Sampler/Extractor/ Separator | Lander/Rover (on or within solid ground) | All airless planetary bodies | University of Maryland |
PICASSO | 17-PICASO17_2-0094 | Obbard | Rachel | Instrument | High energy (x-ray, g-ray, neutron, etc.) | Lander/Rover (on or within solid ground) | Mars | SETI Institute | |
PICASSO | 17-PICASO17_2-0109 | Arevalo | Ricardo | Miniaturized Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometer (ICPMS) for Trace Element Analysis | Instrument | Mass Spectrometry | All planetary surface/atmosphere (anything on planetary body except in-space) | All airless planetary bodies | University of Maryland |
PICASSO | 17-PICASO17_2-0123 | Zacny | Kris | SLUSH: Thermo-Mechanical Deep Drilling System for Ocean Worlds and Mars | Platform | Drill | Lander/Submersible | Icy moons | Honeybee |
PICASSO | 17-PICASO17_2-0126 | Banfield | Donald | Instrument | Dust/Saltation probe | Lander/Rover (on or within solid ground) | All planetary bodies with atmospheres | Cornell University | |
PICASSO | 18-PICASO18_2-0003 | Amsden | Jason | Instrument | Mass Spectrometry | All planetary surface/atmosphere (anything on planetary body except in-space) | All planetary bodies | Duke University | |
PICASSO | 18-PICASO18_2-0013 | Angel | Stanley | Compact, Robust Spatial Heterodyne Raman Spectrometer for Planetary Exploration | Instrument | Raman | Orbital/Flyby (from space) | All planetary bodies | University of South Carolina |
PICASSO | 18-PICASO18_2-0027 | Carr | Christopher | Electronic Life-detection Instrument for Enceladus/Europa (ELIE) | Instrument | Biological sensor | All planetary surface/atmosphere (anything on planetary body except in-space) | All planetary bodies | Georgia Institute of Technology |
PICASSO | 18-PICASO18_2-0033 | Balcerski | Jeffrey | Instrument | Ultraviolet/ Visible | All planetary surface/atmosphere (anything on planetary body except in-space) | Venus | Ohio Aerospace Institute | |
PICASSO | 18-PICASO18_2-0036 | Bar-Cohen | Yoseph | Elastic wave analyzer for icy sub-surfaces (EWAIS) in the solar system | Instrument | Seismometer | Lander/Submersible (in liquid ocean) | Icy moons | Jet Propulsion Laboratory |
PICASSO | 18-PICASO18_2-0047 | Rais-Zadeh | Mina | Radiation Hard and High Temperature Tolerant Thermal Imagers (HOT IR) | Instrument | Infrared | All planetary surface/atmosphere (anything on planetary body except in-space) | Venus | Jet Propulsion Laboratory |
PICASSO | 18-PICASO18_2-0056 | Yu | Anthony | Photonic Integrated Circuit TUned for Reconnaissance and Exploration (PICTURE) | Instrument | LIDAR | Orbital/Flyby (from space) | All planetary bodies | NASA Goddard Space Flight Center |
PICASSO | 18-PICASO18_2-0073 | Clark | Charles | DOWSER: Detecting Objects’ Water from Spatial Epithermal-neutron Response | Instrument | High energy (x-ray, g-ray, neutron, etc.) | All | All airless planetary bodies | University of Maryland, College Park |
PICASSO | 18-PICASO18_2-0076 | Hendrix | Amanda | A Far-UV Micromirror Integral Field Spectrograph for Planetary Science | Instrument | Ultraviolet/ Visible | All | All planetary bodies | Planetary Science Institute |
PICASSO | 18-PICASO18_2-0106 | Zhong | Fang | In-Situ Organic Extraction, Separation and Detection using Supercritical CO2 and Superheated Water | Instrument | Chemical methods (sensors, chromatography, microfluidics, etc.) | All planetary surface/atmosphere (anything on planetary body except in-space) | All planetary bodies | Jet Propulsion Laboratory |
PICASSO | 19-PICASSO192-0016 | Abshire | James | Small Lidar for Profiling Water Vapor and Winds from Planetary Landers | Instrument | LIDAR | Lander/Rover (on or within solid ground) | Mars | NASA Goddard Space Flight Center |
PICASSO | 19-PICASSO192-0033 | Dai | Lenore | Development of a Rugged Seismometer for Venus Surface Deployment | Instrument | Chemical methods (sensors, chromatography, microfluidics, etc.) | Lander/Rover (on or within solid ground) | Venus | Arizona State University |
PICASSO | 19-PICASSO192-0035 | Anderson | Robert | Soil Properties Assessment Resistance and Thermal Analysis (SPARTA) | Instrument | Chemical methods (sensors, chromatography, microfluidics, etc.) | Lander/Rover (on or within solid ground) | All planetary bodies | NASA Goddard Space Flight Center |
PICASSO | 19-PICASSO192-0056 | Bower | Dina | Instrument | Raman | All planetary surface/atmosphere (anything on planetary body except in-space) | Icy moons | NASA Goddard Space Flight Center | |
PICASSO | 19-PICASSO192-0063 | Grubisic | Andrej | Instrument | Raman | Lander/Rover (on or within solid ground) | Earth’s Moon, Asteroids and small moons, Comets, Icy moons, All airless planetary bodies | NASA Goddard Space Flight Center | |
PICASSO | 19-PICASSO192-0068 | Bourouiba | Lydia | Instrument | Chemical methods (sensors, chromatography, microfluidics, etc.) | Lander/Submersible (in liquid ocean) | Mars, Comets, Titan, Icy moons | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | |
PICASSO | 19-PICASSO192-0070 | Marshall | Patrick | Instrument | Raman | All planetary surface/atmosphere (anything on planetary body except in-space) | Titan, Icy moons | University of Kansas | |
PICASSO | 19-PICASSO192-0074 | Mann | Chris | Instrument | Infrared | All | Asteroids and small moons, Comets, Icy moons, All planetary bodies | Nanohmics Inc | |
PICASSO | 19-PICASSO192-0085 | Sarrazin | Philippe | Instrument | High energy (x-ray, g-ray, neutron, etc.) | Lander/Rover (on or within solid ground) | Mercury, Venus, Earth’s Moon, Mars, Asteroids and small moons, Comets, Titan, Icy moons | SETI Institute | |
PICASSO | 19-PICASSO192-0102 | Bolton | Scott | Deep Atmosphere Microwave Radiometer for Ice-Giant Exploration | Instrument | Atmospheric probe | Orbital/Flyby (from space) | Gas giants (Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune) | Southwest Research Institute |
PICASSO | 19-PICASSO192-0110 | Summers | David | Detection of Organics by Gas Chromatography/Gas Phase Fluorescence (GC/GPF) | Instrument | Chemical methods (sensors, chromatography, microfluidics, etc.) | Lander/Rover (on or within solid ground) | Mars, Icy moons | NASA Ames Research Center |
PICASSO | 19-PICASSO192-0120 | Nikzad | Shouleh | UV/Visible Photon Counting and Imaging Silicon Detectors for Planetary Science Instruments | Instrument | Ultraviolet/ Visible | Orbital/Flyby (from space) | Venus, Mars, Comets, Other gas giant moons and rings, All planetary bodies | Jet Propulsion Laboratory |
PICASSO | 20-PICASO20-0013 | Bennett | Christopher | Instrument | Raman | Lander/Rover (on or within solid ground) | Asteroids and small moons, Comets, Titan, Icy moons | University of Central Florida | |
PICASSO | 20-PICASO20-0017 | Mehdi | Imran | Submillimeter-wave Line-spectrometer for Isotopologue Measurements (SUBLIME) | Instrument | Sub-mm/THz/microwave | Orbital/Flyby (from space) | Comets, Icy moons | Jet Propulsion Laboratory |
PICASSO | 20-PICASO20-0031 | Romaine | Suzanne | Advancing Miniature Lightweight X-ray Optics for Solar System Exploration | Instrument | High energy (x-ray, g-ray, neutron, etc.) | Orbital/Flyby (from space) | Mercury, Earth’s Moon, Asteroids and small moons, Comets, All airless planetary bodies, All planetary bodies | Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory |
PICASSO | 20-PICASO20-0041 | Noell | Aaron | Instrument | Chemical methods (sensors, chromatography, microfluidics, etc.) | Lander/Rover (on or within solid ground) | Icy Worlds, Moons | Jet Propulsion Laboratory | |
PICASSO | 20-PICASO20-0044 | Kraus | Hannes | Optically Pumped Solid-State Quantum Magnetometer OPuS-MAGNM | Instrument | Magnetometer | All | Asteroids and small moons, All planetary bodies | Jet Propulsion Laboratory |
PICASSO | 20-PICASO20-0075 | Sultana | Mahmooda | Volatile-sensing Array for Planetary Onsite Research (VAPOR) | Instrument | Chemical methods (sensors, chromatography, microfluidics, etc.) | All planetary surface/atmosphere (anything on planetary body except in-space) | Earth’s Moon, Mars, All planetary bodies | NASA Goddard Space Flight Center |
PICASSO | 20-PICASO20-0091 | Fleming | Brian | Far-Ultraviolet Guiding Fiber Optics for Future Planetary Science Missions | Instrument | Ultraviolet/ Visible | All | Mars, Comets, Gas giants, Titan, Icy moons, All planetary bodies | University of Colorado |
PICASSO | 20-PICASO20-0099 | Wilhelm | Mary Beth | KAMELOT: Kerogen And Macromolecule Extractor Liberating Organics Thermolytically | Instrument | Chemical methods (sensors, chromatography, microfluidics, etc.) | Lander/Rover (on or within solid ground) | Mars, Asteroids and small moons, Titan, Icy moons, All airless planetary bodies, All planetary bodies with atmospheres | NASA Ames Research Center |
PICASSO | 20-PICASO20-0108 | Moore | Thomas | Solid-State CW Deep UV Laser Source for Planetary Science Instruments | Instrument | Raman | Lander/Rover (on or within solid ground) | Earth’s Moon, Asteroids and small moons, Icy moons, All planetary bodies | Southwest Research Institute |
PICASSO | 20-PICASO20-0123 | Nemchick | Deacon | Quadrupole Ion Trap – Vibrational Action Spectroscopy (QIT-VAS) for Identification of Biomolecules | Instrument | Mass Spectrometry | All planetary surface/atmosphere (anything on planetary body except in-space) | Titan, Icy moons, All planetary bodies with atmospheres | Jet Propulsion Laboratory |
PICASSO | 21-PICASSO21-0010 | Brisset | Julie | Instrument | Microscopy | Lander/Rover (on or within solid ground) | Earth’s Moon, Asteroids and small moons, Comets, Titan, Icy moons, Other gas giant moons and rings, All airless planetary bodies | University of Central Florida | |
PICASSO | 21-PICASSO21-0011 | Gupta | Mool | Instrument | Raman | Lander/Rover (on or within solid ground) | All planetary bodies | University of Virginia | |
PICASSO | 21-PICASSO21-0014 | Bywaters | Kathryn | Platform | Chemical methods (sensors, chromatography, microfluidics, etc.) | Lander/Rover (on or within solid ground) | Earth’s Moon, Mars, Asteroids and small moons, Icy moons, All airless planetary bodies, All planetary bodies with atmospheres, All planetary bodies | Honeybee Robotics | |
PICASSO | 21-PICASSO21-0016 | Hewagama | Tilak | Instrument | Ultraviolet/ Visible | Orbital/Flyby (from space) | All planetary bodies | NASA Goddard Space Flight Center | |
PICASSO | 21-PICASSO21-0017 | Tang | Adrian | Instrument | Radar/GPR | Lander/Rover (on or within solid ground) | Mars | NASA Langley Research Center | |
PICASSO | 21-PICASSO21-0024 | Campbell | Joel | Instrument | LIDAR | Orbital/Flyby (from space) | Mars | Jet Propulsion Laboratory | |
PICASSO | 22-PICASSO22-0001 | Cremons | Daniel | Tunable Mid-Infrared Spectroscopic Imaging Lidar for 4D Volatile Mapping | Instrument | LIDAR | All | Earth’s Moon, Comets, Icy moons | NASA Goddard Space Flight Center |
PICASSO | 22-PICASSO22-0004 | Lim | Lucy | A Robust Electron Source for a Miniaturized Electron Probe for In Situ Elemental Microanalysis | Instrument | High energy (x-ray, g-ray, neutron, etc.) | Lander/Rover (on or within solid ground) | Mercury, Earth’s Moon, Asteroids and small moons, Comets, Icy moons, All airless planetary bodies | NASA Goddard Space Flight Center |
PICASSO | 22-PICASSO22-0006 | Scott | Valerie | Instrument | High energy (x-ray, g-ray, neutron, etc.) | Lander/Rover (on or within solid ground) | Earth’s Moon, Mars, Asteroids and small moons | Jet Propulsion Laboratory | |
PICASSO | 22-PICASSO22-0007 | Schindhelm | Rebecca | A Selective High-Resolution Metamaterial Filter for Infrared Spectroscopy | Instrument | Infrared | All | Comets, Gas Giants, Icy Moons | Ball Aerospace |
PICASSO | 22-PICASSO22-0011 | Bar-Cohen | Yoseph | Deployable Infrasonic Sensor Array (DISA) for Venus Geophysical Studies | Instrument | Seismometer | Lander/Rover (on or within solid ground) | Venus | Jet Propulsion Laboratory |
PICASSO | 22-PICASSO22-0013 | Parsons | Ann | Instrument | High energy (x-ray, g-ray, neutron, etc.) | Lander/Rover (on or within solid ground) | All planetary bodies | NASA Goddard Space Flight Center | |
PICASSO | 22-PICASSO22-0014 | Soibel | Alex | Instrument | Infrared | Orbital/Flyby (from space) | Venus, Earth’s Moon, Other gas giant moons and rings | Jet Propulsion Laboratory | |
PICASSO | 22-PICASSO22-0017 | Corliss | Jason | Instrument | Ultraviolet/ Visible | Orbital/Flyby (from space) | All planetary bodies | University of Arizona | |
PICASSO | 22-PICASSO22-0018 | Lee | Jaeho | Holey Silicon-based Thermopiles for High-Sensitivity Broadband Thermal Detection | Instrument | Thermal Infrared | All | Earth’s Moon, Gas giants, Icy moons | University of California, Irvine |
PICASSO | 23-PICASSO23-00013 | Eshelman | Evan | Multispectral Organic Detection and Near-Infrared Exobiology Tool | Instrument | Raman | Lander/Rover (on or within solid ground) | Mars, Asteroids and small moons, Comets, Titan, Icy moons, All airless planetary bodies, All planetary bodies with atmospheres, All planetary bodies | Montana State University |
PICASSO | 23-PICASSO23-0006 | Blake | David | Zero power 244-Cm Sources for Spacecraft Instruments | Instrument | High energy (x-ray, g-ray, neutron, etc.) | Lander/Rover (on or within solid ground) | Earth’s Moon, Mars | NASA Ames Research Center |
PICASSO | 23-PICASSO23-0008 | Li | Xiang | Laser Ablation Mass Analyzer (LAMA) | Instrument | Mass Spectrometry | Lander/Rover (on or within solid ground) | Earth’s Moon, Asteroids and small moons, Comets, Icy moons, All airless planetary bodies | NASA Goddard Space Flight Center |
PICASSO | 23-PICASSO23-0010 | Rahiminejad | Sophia | Seismometers for Harsh Atmospheric and Kinetic Environments (SHAKE) | Instrument | Seismometer | Lander/Rover (on or within solid ground) | Venus, Earth’s Moon, Icy moons | Jet Propulsion Laboratory |
PICASSO | 23-PICASSO23-0011 | Wiens | Roger | Fine-Scale Pixel Element Mapping for Mars, the Moon, and Other Bodies with Miniaturized LIBS | Instrument | Mass Spectrometry | Lander/Rover (on or within solid ground) | Mercury, Earth’s Moon, Mars, Asteroids and small moons, Comets, Titan, Icy moons, Other gas/ice giant moons and rings, All airless planetary bodies | Purdue University |
PICASSO | 23-PICASSO23-0013 | Eshelman | Evan | Multispectral Organic Detection and Near-Infrared Exobiology Tool (HBR) | Instrument | Raman | Lander/Rover (on or within solid ground) | Mars, Asteroids and small moons, Titan, Icy moons, All airless planetary bodies, All planetary bodies with atmospheres | Honeybee Robotics |
PICASSO | 23-PICASSO23-0016 | Chou | Luoth | Gas Analysis for Life Explorers (GALE) | Instrument | Chemical methods (sensors, chromatography, microfluidics, etc.) | Lander/Rover (on or within solid ground) | Mars, Ice giants (Uranus, Neptune), Titan, Icy moons, All planetary bodies with atmospheres, All planetary bodies | NASA Goddard Space Flight Center |
PICASSO | 23-PICASSO23-0019 | Wang | Xu | Compact Electrostatic Dust Analyzer (CEDA) for Measuring Dust Transport on Small Airless Bodies | Instrument | Dust/Saltation probe | Lander/Rover (on or within solid ground) | Asteroids and small moons, Comets | University of Colorado |
PICASSO | 23-PICASSO23-0021 | Leon | Omar | Lunar Vehicle Active Charge Control System | Instrument | Plasma Probe | All | Earth’s Moon | University of Michigan |
PICASSO | 23-PICASSO23-0026 | Phal | Yamuna | Mid-Infrared Rapid Advanced Chiroptical Life-detection Explorer (MIRACLE) | Instrument | Microscopy | Lander/Rover (on or within solid ground) | Mars, Asteroids and small moons, Titan, Icy moons, All airless planetary bodies, All planetary bodies with atmospheres | Colorado School of Mines |
PICASSO | 23-PICASSO23-0027 | Abrahamsson | Sven | Low-pressure ion mobility spectrometer for in-situ organic analysis | Instrument | Chemical methods (sensors, chromatography, microfluidics, etc.) | Lander/Rover (on or within solid ground) | Mars, Asteroids and small moons, Titan, Icy moons, All airless planetary bodies, All planetary bodies with atmospheres | Jet Propulsion Laboratory |
