NASA L'SPACE Mission Concept Academy

During Fall 2021 I participated in a Mission Concept Academy, which is a STEM Workforce Development Workshop organized by people from NASA. Mission Concept Academy is a program that teaches its students to write a Preliminary Design Report (PDR) for missions that take place in space.

The mission of this session was to send a spacecraft to Mars to Analyze water ice.

Role: Science Team Leader

My responsibilities:

• Guide a team of scientists

• Establish the Scientific Objectives

• Pick the instrumentation for the success of the mission

• Establish criteria for the success of the mission

Scientific Objectives of the missions:

• Measure the thickness of ice

• Analyze density variations in the ice

• Analyze any impurities in the ice

• Look at the bed topography under the ice sheets

Scientific Instrumentation used for this mission: Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR)