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A graduate-level path exploring the habitability and exploration of ocean worlds, focusing on Europa, Enceladus, Titan, and Ganymede. Covers necessary planetary science, astrobiology, and geophysics foundations before diving into current missions and future exploration strategies.
This path equips graduate students in planetary science with the policy knowledge essential for careers involving mission planning, compliance, and international collaboration. It covers space law, planetary protection, funding mechanisms, international cooperation, and commercial space, emphasizing how policy shapes scientific exploration.
This learning path equips graduate students in planetary science with the knowledge and skills to archive planetary data according to established standards, focusing on PDS4 standards, data formats, metadata, validation, archiving workflows, and data access. It covers the essential concepts and practices needed to ensure data are properly documented, validated, and accessible to the scientific community.
This path equips graduate students in planetary science with the knowledge and skills to design and conduct analyses of returned planetary samples. It covers sample handling, contamination control, petrology, microanalysis, isotope geochemistry, and organic analysis, emphasizing the integration of multiple techniques and the importance of contamination assessment in curating and analyzing these precious materials.
A graduate-level learning path for planetary scientists to master photogrammetric techniques for reconstructing 3D planetary surfaces from stereo imagery. It covers image geometry, stereo processing, DEM generation, orthorectification, and accuracy assessment, integrating remote sensing and computer vision fundamentals.
A graduate-level learning path that guides students through the classification, petrology, and isotope geochemistry of meteorites to understand planetary formation and evolution. The path progresses from fundamental definitions and classification schemes to advanced analytical techniques and the interpretation of parent-body processes, including shock effects and terrestrial weathering.
This graduate-level learning path equips planetary science students with the knowledge and skills to plan and conduct mission operations, covering mission design, systems engineering, operations planning, commanding, data acquisition, anomaly resolution, and long-term operations. It emphasizes team collaboration and practical application through simulations and real-world case studies.
This graduate-level learning path equips planetary science students with the knowledge and skills to create and analyze planetary maps. It covers coordinate systems, map projections, GIS, image processing, and specialized mapping techniques such as topographic and geologic mapping, culminating in a capstone project that integrates these skills.
This advanced graduate-level path equips learners with the theoretical and practical tools to model planetary gravity fields, determine shape, analyze rotation and tidal responses, and apply inverse methods. It progresses from foundational physics and mathematics through core geodetic concepts to advanced applications and synthesis.
This advanced graduate-level path equips learners with the knowledge and skills to use spectroscopy for studying planetary compositions, covering both surface mineralogy and atmospheric composition. It builds from fundamental physics (quantum mechanics, atomic physics) and radiative transfer through data calibration and interpretation techniques, culminating in practical applications to real planetary bodies.