It also supports research aimed
toward understanding the geochemical nature of the solar system's bodies, such
as planets, Earth's moon , satellites of the outer planets, and small bodies.gov/home

Ghassem Asrar, deputy associate
administrator for NASA's Science Mission Directorate.

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Maximum grant value is: $524,000 .
At the end of the preliminary design study, the mission must pass a
confirmation review that will address significant schedule, technical and cost
risks before being confirmed for the development phase.,
will provide mission project management.nasa.gov/

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This mission proposes to place a spacecraft in a polar orbit around Jupiter to
investigate the existence of an ice-rock core; determine the amount of global
water and ammonia present in the atmosphere; study convection and deep wind
profiles in the atmosphere; investigate the origin of the Jovian magnetic
field; and explore the polar magnetosphere.

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NASA Awards University Of Tennessee Science Research Grants

The program supports research to conduct laboratory studies of a variety
of extraterrestrial materials such as meteorites, cosmic dust, and lunar
samples, which are cosmochemical in nature.
The New Frontiers Program is designed to provide opportunities to conduct
several of the medium-class missions identified as top priority objectives in
the Decadal Solar System Exploration Survey, conducted by the Space Studies
Board of the National Research Council.
The first NASA New Frontiers mission will fly by the Pluto-Charon system
in 2014 and then target another Kuiper asteroid belt object.

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WASHINGTON, NASA's Science Mission Directorate,
Solar System Division, Washington, selected the University of Tennessee,
Knoxville, Tenn.
The research also supports the Vision for Space Exploration, NASA's long-
term plan to return astronauts to the moon and extend exploration to Mars and
beyond. The mission is called
Juno, and it is the second in NASA's New Frontiers Program.

"We are excited at the prospect of the new scientific understanding and
discoveries by Juno in our continued exploration of the outer reaches of our
solar system during the next decade," said Dr. Scott Bolton of Southwest Research Institute, Boulder, Colo., is the
Principal Investigator.

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. "This was a very tough decision given the exciting and innovative
nature of the two missions," Asrar added.hq.nasa.gov/home/index.

system science

The program also covers cosmochemical studies concerned with the formation and
chemical development of the solar system .

NASA Selects New Frontiers Mission Concept Study

WASHINGTON, NASA today announced a mission to fly
to Jupiter will proceed to a preliminary design phase.
The mission will conduct a first -time, in-depth study of the giant planet. Lockheed Martin Space Systems in
Denver will build the spacecraft.
NASA selected two proposed mission concepts for study in July 2004 from
seven submitted in February 2004 in response to an agency Announcement of
Opportunity.

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, for a grant to support the agency's Cosmochemistry Research
Program.nasa.
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The selected New Frontiers science mission must be ready for launch no
later than June 30, 2010, within a mission cost cap of $700 million.