Committees

Planetary Science Advisory Committee

The Planetary Science Advisory Committee (PAC) is a new FACA committee of NASA, and replaces the Planetary Science Subcommittee of the NAC SC.

• Materials from the predecessor Subcommittee
• PAC 101 Welcome to the PAC (PDF)
• PAC Nominations 2022 (PDF)
• PAC Charter
• PAC Designated Federal Officer and Appointments
• Meeting Documents

Strategic Planning

Planetary Missions Concept Studies Reports

• Mercury Lander
• Venus Flagship Mission
• Lunar Geophysical Network
• Lunar Intrepid
• Geochronology Report
• Mars MORIE
• Mars MOSAIC
• Exploration of Ceres Habitability
• Enceladus Orbilander
• Neptune Odyssey
• Pluto Persephone Study

Planetary Decadal Documents

• Initial (90-day) written response to the 2023–2032 Planetary Science and Astrobiology Decadal Survey
• Initial (90-day) response to the 2023–2032 Planetary Science and Astrobiology Decadal Survey Public Townhall Slides
• Initial (90-day) response to the 2023–2032 Planetary Science and Astrobiology Decadal Survey Public Townhall Recording
• PSD Response to Decadal Midterm
• 2018 NRC Decadal Survey Midterm Review
• 2013-2022 NRC Decadal Survey
• Visions into Voyages for Planetary Science in the Decade 2013-2022 (2011)
• Vision and Voyages for Planetary Science in the Decade 2013-2022 (A Mid-term Review - 2018)

White Papers

• Community White Paper on Landed Mercury Science
• Value of NASA Participating Scientist programs to NASA PSD
• High-priority science questions about Mercury

NAS Reports

• Signed Curation Facilities Response Final
• Finding Hazardous Asteroids Using Infrared and Visible Wavelength Telescopes
• Report Series: Committee on Astrobiology and Planetary Science (Commercial Aspects)
• Report Series: Committee on Astrobiology and Planetary Science (Planetary Science Aspects)
• Review of the Restructured Research and Analysis Programs of NASA's Planetary Science Division
• Strategic Investments in Instrumentation and Facilities for Extraterrestrial Sample Curation and Analysis
• Report Series: Committee on Astrobiology and Planetary Science: Getting Ready for the Next Planetary Science Decadal Survey
• Grading NASA's Solar System Exploration Program
• Report Series: Committee on Astrobiology and Planetary Science
• Extending Science: NASA's Space Science Mission Extensions and the Senior Review Process (2016)
• Near-Earth Object Surveys and Hazard Mitigation Strategies
• Achieving Science with CubeSats

Senior Reviews

• Planetary Mission Senior Reviews​​

NASA’s IRTF Independent Review

• Terms of Reference
• IRTF Report
• Panel Cover Letter
• Evaluation Report

Town Hall Presentations

LPSC

• PSD Virtual Town Hall -- Lori Glaze, PSD Director
• R&A Virtual Town Hall -- Stephen Rinehart, Planetary R&A Director
• LPSC 2019 - Lori Glaze, PSD Director

DPS

• DPS 2018 – Lori Glaze, PSD Director

AGU

• AGU 2019 – Lori Glaze, PSD Director
• AGU 2018 – Lori Glaze, PSD Director
• AGU 2017 - NASA PSD Townhall Presentation

Science-funded Nuggets

• What is a Nugget?
• Lunar and Planetary Institute Nuggets