Collections and calls for papers

Entering New Terrain: Exploration of a Lunar Southern Polar Region by S.P. Hopper and MAPP Rover

The Intuitive Machines mission 2 (IM-2) Nova-C lander will launch to the surface of the Moon in 2024 as part of the NASA CLPS program. IM-2 will carry a hopper spacecraft that will perform a series of flight...

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Open

Submission deadline

31 May 2024

ESA's Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (JUICE): Science, Payload, and Mission

ESA’s Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (JUICE), launched on 14 April 2023, will make detailed observations of the giant gas planet and its three large ocean-bearing moons – Ganymede, Callisto and Europa – with a s...

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Open

Submission deadline

30 April 2024

Evolution of the Solar System: Constraints from Meteorites

This collection presents research from the ISSI Workshop "Constraints from Meteorites", held 5–9 June 2023, from research on primitive meteorites and how results fit into theoretical models of the early sola...

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Open

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Ongoing

Exploration of a Lunar Southern Polar Region by Grace Hopper and MAPP Rover

The NASA-CLPS mission PRIME-1 (IM-2) brings two mobile explorers to the Lunar southern polar region: the hopper Grace Hopper (formerly S.P. Hopper or MicroNova) and the rover MAPP. These two explores will in...

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Open

Submission deadline

31 July 2024

Magnetic Reconnection: Explosive Energy Conversion in Space Plasmas

This collection presents results from the ISSI Workhop "Magnetic Reconnection: Explosive Energy Conversion in Space Plasmas", held 27 June–1 July 2022, which aims to review progress in research of magnetic r...

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Open

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Ongoing

Mars Express: Pioneering Two Decades of European Science and Exploration of Mars

This article collection celebrates 20 years since the launch of ESA's Mars Express. Since beginning science operations in 2004, Mars Express has provided breathtaking views of Mars in three dimensions. It ha...

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Open

Submission deadline

01 May 2024

New Vision of the Saturnian System in the Context of a Highly Dissipative Saturn

Four years after the end of the Cassini mission, we now have a good overview of the essential mechanisms that are at work in the Saturnian system. This collection presents results from the ISSI Workhop "New ...

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Open

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Ongoing

Solar wind Magnetosphere Ionosphere Link Explorer (SMILE)

SMILE is a joint mission between the European Space Agency (ESA) and the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS). SMILE will image for the first time in soft X-rays and EUV up to 40 hours per orbit continously, im...

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Open

Submission deadline

31 December 2024

Strong Gravitational Lensing

This collection presents results from the ISSI Workhop "Strong Gravitational Lensing", held 18–22 July 2022, which aimed to take stock of the considerable progress in our understanding of many aspects of str...

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Open

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Ongoing

The Hera mission to (65803) Didymos: First rendezvous with a binary asteroid and revealing the outcome of the DART impact

Hera is a planetary defense mission under development at the European Space Agency (ESA) – launching in October 2024. Its objectives are to investigate the Didymos binary asteroid, including the very first a...

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Open

Submission deadline

30 September 2024

The NASA Psyche Mission: Science Instruments and Investigations

The Psyche mission will explore a metal-rich asteroid of the same name that lies in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. The spacecraft will orbit the asteroid for nearly two years to investigate...

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Open

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Ongoing

Van Allen Probes: Mission and Discoveries Through Earth’s Inner Magnetosphere

The Van Allen Probes (formerly known as the Radiation Belt Storm Probes (RBSP)), launched on 30 August 2012 and operating for seven years, were used to study two extreme and dynamic regions of space known as...

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Open

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Ongoing

Venus: Evolution Through Time

This collection presents results from the ISSI Workhop "Venus: Evolution through Time", held 13–17 September 2021, which aims to collate knowledge of Venus evolution scenarios and the observations needed to ...

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Open

Submission deadline

Ongoing