COSPAR Capacity Building Workshop 2009

LUNAR AND PLANETARY SURFACE SCIENCE

September 6 ~19, 2009 -- Harbin, China

LECTURE TOPICS

COSPAR intends to offer another training opportunity for doctoral students and young postdoc's from development countries in the frame of its CAPACITY BUILDING WORKSHOP PROGRAMME entitled "LUNAR AND PLANETARY SURFACE SCIENCE". This workshop will be held at the Harbin Institute of Technology in Harbin, China. It is mainly addressed (but not restricted) to young scientists working in the upcoming lunar and planetary research projects in the Asia – Pacific region. The program as it emerged by now will cover the following general lecture topics:

Lunar exploration and science results • Chang'e-1 (Chinese) • Chandrayaan-1 (Indian) • Lander missions and network science
Robotics for the planetary surface exploration • Surface operations • Surface sampling methods (drilling, hammering, etc.) • Applications in Chinese Lunar lander/rover mission.
Small body (comet / asteroid) exploration and science results • Rosetta / Philae (ESA) • Stardust (NASA) • Deep Impact (NASA) • Hayabusa / MINERVA (JAXA) • Phobos-Grunt (IKI)
Mars exploration and science results • Mars Express (ESA) • Mars Exploration Rovers (NASA) • Phoenix (NASA) • ExoMars (ESA) • Yinghuo-1

Based on the experience from previous workshops, the programme will be subdivided into two main blocks:

Lectures and Theoretical work;
Practical work in smaller groups on particular topics

LECTURERS AND TUTORS

Reports on Indian Space Missions (Chandrayaan-1):
S.V.S. Murty, Physical Research Laboratory, Ahmedabad, India
A. S. Arya, Space Applications Centre, ISRO, Ahmedabad, India
Reports on Chinese Space Missions (Chang’e-1 and Yinghuo):
Huang Qian, Shanghai Astronomical Observatory, China
Meng Zhiguo, Jilin University, China
Huang Jun, University of Geosciences, Wuhan, China
Wu Yunzhao, School of Geographic and Oceanographic Sciences, Nanjing, China
Reports on NASA/ESA Space Missions and General Topics:
Robert Denise, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, USA
Shaopeng Huang, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA
Wlodek Kofman, CNRS, Grenoble, France
Andrew Ball, Open University, Milton Keynes, England
Stephan Ulamec, DLR Cologne, Germany
Jacek Leliwa-Kopystynski, Warsaw University, Poland
Yang Gao, Surrey Space Centre, University of Surrey, England
Norbert Koemle, Space Research Institute, Graz, Austria

workshop programme

CAPACITY BUILDING WORKSHOP HARBIN 6 – 19 September 2009 Program

Date

Time

Lecturer(s)

Topic/Activity

Sunday

6 September 2009

Morning

Evening 19-21h

All

Arrival day

Welcome / Icebreaker party

Monday

7 September 2009

9:00 – 11:00

Lunch break

14:00 – 15:00

Coffee break

16:00 – 17:30

Dinner

Ren Nanqi

Wuji

Komle

Fan Hongbo

Ouyang (SHAO)

Huang Jun(wuhan)

Meng Zhiguo(jilin)

Wu Yuzhao(Nanjing)

Welcome address from HIT(Vice President)

Welcome address form CAS,CSSAR,COSPAR

Welcome address from COSPAR

Welcome address from HIT(Director,International Affairs)

Moon: Chang'e 1 - overview,laser altimeter

Moon: Chang'e 1 - microwave experiment,regolith

Moon: Chang'e 1 -continued

Moon: Chang'e 1 - continued

Tuesday

8 September 2009

9:00 – 10:30

Coffee break

11:00 – 12:30

Lunch break

14.00 – 15:30

Coffee break

16:00 – 17:30

Dinner

Murty

Arya

Huang Qian (SHAO)

Wu Yunzhao(Nanjing)

Gao

Moon: Chandrayaan(overview,instruments)

Moon:Chandrayaan-1, optical instruments

Moon: Chang'e -1 continued

Moon :Chang'e -1 continued

Moon: penetrators, new missions

Wednesday

9 September 2009

9:00 – 10:30

Coffee break

11:00 – 12:30

Lunch break

14.00 – 15:30

Coffee break

16:00 – 17:30

Dinner

Murty

Arya

Denise

Kofman

Moon: Chandrayaan plans and perspectives

Moon: Chandrayaan-1 results

Mars : Phoenix project overview and results

Mars: Theory of MARSIS/CONSERT

Thursday

10 September 2009

9:00 – 10:30

Coffee break

11:00 – 12:30

Lunch break

14.00 – 15:30

Coffee break

16:00 – 17:30

Dinner

Kofman

Denise

Gao

Ball

Mars : SHERADE, instrument and results

Mars :Rovers, NASA plans

Moon: robotics, drilling

Moon, Asteroids: in situ missions, instruments

Friday

11 September 2009

9:00 – 10:30

Coffee break

11:00 – 12:30

Lunch break

14.00 – 15:30

Coffee break

16:00 – 17:30

Dinner

19:30 (evening)

Ball

Huang Qian(on behalf of Prof. ping(SHAO))

Ulamec

Kofman

All

Water and ice on Mars

Mars: Yinghuo-1(Overview, mission status)

Comets: Rosetta overview

Comets: CONSERT

Organisation of student project groups

Saturday

12 September 2009

9:00 – 10:30

Coffee break

11:00 – 12:30

Lunch break

14.00 – 17:30

Dinner

Ulamec

Leliea-Kopystinski

All

Comets: Rosetta Lander

Comets: other missions (DI, STARDUST, etc.)

Free afternoon

Sunday

13 September 2009

Whole day

All

Excursion/Social events

Monday

14 September 2009

9:00 – 10:30

Coffee break

11:00 – 12:30

Lunch break

14.00 – 15:30

Coffee break

16:00 – 17:30

Dinner

Huang Shaopeng

Leliwa-Kopystinski

Tutors

Moon: Apollo results

Icy moons

Project work (Introduction of participants)

Project work

Tuesday

15 September 2009

9:00 – 10:30

Coffee break

11:00 – 12:30

Lunch break

14.00 – 15:30

Coffee break

16:00 – 17:30

Dinner

Huang Shaopeng

Ball

Tutors

Moon: lunar heat flow, climate monitoring from the Moon

Asteroids: NEO's, impact hazards

Project work

Wednesday

16 September 2009

9:00 – 10:30

Coffee break

11:00 – 12:30

Lunch break

14.00 – 15:30

Coffee break

16:00 – 17:30

Dinner

Ball

Tutors

Titan (Cassini/HUYGENS)

Project work

Thursday

17 September 2009

9:00 – 10:30

Coffee break

11:00 – 12:30

Lunch break

14.00 – 15:30

Coffee break

16:00 – 17:30

Dinner

Tutors

Project work

Friday

18 September 2009

9:00 – 10:30

Coffee break

11:00 – 12:30

Lunch break

14.00 – 15:30

Coffee break

16:00 – 17:30

Dinner

Tutors

All

Project work

Student presentations

Saturday

19 September 2009

All

Departure day

Student Projects

In the second week 4 project teams were formed among the participants work out proposals which were presented as oral talks on Friday afternoon before the closure of the workshop. The topics of the projects as well as the the members of the four project teams are listed in the table below.

	Team members	Tutors	Topic
Project 1	Doan Duc Lam (Vietnam) Shanmugam (India) Neeraj (India) Shyama (India) Qian Huang (China) Jun Huang (China) Yunzhao Wu (China)	S.V.S.Murty A.S. Arya	Comparison of Payloads and Analysis of Data from Chandrayaan-1 and Chang’e-1
Project 2	Xiaoli Su Shyama Zhiguo Meng Satheesh Thampi Durga Prasad Sunil Krishna	Huang Shaopeng Norbert Koemle	A Heat Flow Experiment for Lunar Exploration
Project 3	Tirtha Pratim Das (India) Mainak Basu (India) Khaliq-Uz-Zaman (Pakistan) Li Yuqing (China) Gao Ai (China) Zhao Jianping (China) Cheng Xiaojun (China) Gu Xiaodong (China)	Yang Gao Andrew Ball	MARS HABITABILITY EXPLORER (MHE) – Preliminary Studies on an Orbiter-Lander-Rover Mission to Mars : Mission Design, Science and Engineering Perspectives
Project 4	Ren Gaofeng, Maria Gritsevich, He Jiang, Wang Bei	Stephan Ulamec Andrew Ball	Lander Scenario for Mission to Mars