Session 8_Support to NASA Mars Science ... - National REP

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• Florida is a “County Rule State” - CountyCommissioners have the authority andresponsibility to protect their citizens –Delegated to Emergency Management (EM)Director• If the Governor declares a State ofEmergency that authority and responsibilitypasses to the Governor• The governor’s representative is delegatedthat authority – EM person located at RADCCor Unified Command

• State Comprehensive Emergency PlanAnnex A, Appendix V details functions andresponsibilities for federal agencies, stateagencies and local govt’s in 50 mile radius.• Bureau Standard Operating Proceduredescribes Bureau response and PAGs• No federal funds are provided

• Governor's Rep at RADCC• 10-15 Person Team at Unified Commandwhen established• SEOC usually not activated for launch, but inmonitoring mode

• Plans• Brevard County Comprehensive Emergency Management Plan(BC CEMP) with a Radiological Contingency Plan for SpaceLaunches Annex• Mission Specific Brevard County Radiological Contingency Planintegrated with KSC/NASA/DOE/USAF/State As defined inCEMP and operational briefings• Procedures• EOC is activated for a launch and is prepared to issue warnings,alerts and protective actions if required• Risk Communication Training and Briefings• Coordinator Hospital Emergency Room and Pre-hospital EMStraining through REAC/TS• Command and Control – County through a Multi-agencyCoordination Center to the RADCC (Unified CoordinationGroup)

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• Procedures cont.• Communications include:▪ Via Radio to PSAPs, First Responders, and hospitals▪ Via call notifications system (reverse 911)▪ Emergency Alert System▪ Digital Bill Boards▪ Twitter, Facebook and other social media• Funding• Protection of the Public, through Alerting and Warning, isa basic core responsibility of Emergency Management.The County funds all preparedness, training, and responsefor local agencies.• There is no funding for response from the FederalGovernment.

• Response• Traffic Control Points• Security for off-site monitoring sites• Continuous media updates for the public• Security if there is physical off site impacts• Emergency medical support• A location for Unified Command off-site• Activate Brevard County CEMP and LaunchSpecific Plan for the MSL

• Objectives – What will it do?• Facts• Features• Limited time to Launch

2011Strategy: Follow the water, assess habitability, return a sample, prepare for humans.MSLconcept: Mobile laboratory to assess habitability

Explore and quantitatively assess a local region on Mars’ surface as a potentialhabitat for life, past or present.• Assessment of present habitability requires:– An evaluation of the characteristics of the environment and the processesthat influence it from microscopic to regional scales.– A comparison of these characteristics with what is known about thecapacity of life, as we know it, to exist in such environments.• Determination of past habitability has the added requirement of inferringenvironments and processes in the past from observation in the present.• Such assessments require integration of a wide variety of chemical, physical, andgeological measurements and analyses.• These analyses would be accomplished by a diverse set of instruments, asophisticated sampling system, and a rover capable of bringing the payload to arange of sites and supporting it over one Mars year at a carefully chosen landingsite.

ENTRY, DESCENT, LANDING• Guided entry and controlled,powered “sky crane” descent• 20-km diameter landing ellipseCRUISE/APPROACH• 10-12 month cruise• Arrive N. hemisphere summer(L s =120-150)• Discovery responsive for landingsites ±60º latitude,

MSL Mission Overview (cont’d)

MastCamobserves thegeologicalstructures andfeatures withinthe vicinity of theroverAPXS determines thechemical composition ofrocks, soils, and processedsamplesMars Handheld Lens Imager(MAHLI) characterizes the historyand processes recorded ingeologic materials encounteredby MSLChemCam performs elemental analysesthrough laser-induced breakdownspectroscopyChemistry and Mineralogy (CheMin) performsquantitative mineralogy and elementalcomposition

Dynamic Albedo of Neutrons(DAN) measures the abundanceof hydrogen (e.g., in water orhydrated minerals) within 1meter of the surfaceSAM Suite Instruments-Quadrupole Mass Spectrometer (QMS)-Gas Chromatograph (GC)-Tunable Laser Spectrometer (TLS)Mars Descent Imager(MARDI) provides detailedimagery of the MSL landingregionRadiationAssessmentDetector(RAD)characterizes theradiationenvironmenton thesurface ofMarsRover EnvironmentalMonitoring Station(REMS) measures themeteorological and UVradiationenvironments.SampleAcquisition,SampleProcessing andHandling(SA/SPaH)Process rockcores, smallpebbles, orregolith intosmaller particlesand deliver theprocessedmaterial to theanalytical labinstruments

USAF C-17 Used for Transport of Mars Science Laboratory Rover to KSC

• Launch Site Radiological Control Center (RADCC)• Coordinating Agency Management Group (CMG)• Joint Information Center (JIC)• Pre-deployed Field Monitoring Capabilities on-site& Off-Site• Environmental Continuous Air Monitoring System –ECAMS• Field Radiation Monitoring Teams• Consequence Management Home Team – CMHT

RADCCCMGAssessment Command & Control CenterJICRADCC• Monitoring Assessment from ECAMs &Field Teams• Plum Projection From NARAC using45 SW Weather Data• Protective Action RecommendationsCMG• Senior Management Reps from NASA,DOE, EPA, FEMA, State of FL & CountyEOC’sJIC• PAO’s from NASA, DOE, 45 SW, Launch35Vehicle, EPA, State & County

Field Monitoring Teams• On-site & Off-Site deployment of field monitoring teams equippedwith FIDLER detectors, Alpha survey meters, and hi volume airsamplers. Field teams made up of personnel from NASA KSC, DOE,Air Force, and State of Florida Bureau of Radiological Health.Instrument readings will be electronically sent to the RADCC &CMHT RAMS servers via use of DOE Tables and MPCD’s.

Legend:Fxx = Offsite ECAMNxx = Onsite ECAM

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• Emergency Response Organization– Unified Command– State / County EOC– Other Federal agencies41

RAMS Overview – Mission and Primary Functions• Provides centralized collection and management of all dataused during a response to a nuclear or radiological event• Provides information management and analysis support toscientific personnel• Supports production of work products (i.e. Maps)• Provides integration and data exchange between multipleresponse assets, technologies, and personnel

NARAC: National AtmosphericRadiological Advisory CapabilityNARAC can provide Consequence Management (CM) information for a widerange of atmospheric hazards and release types including:• Explosive dispersal of radiologicalmaterial• Nuclear explosions• Toxic industrial chemical spills• Fires• Biological agents• Chemical agents• Nuclear power plant accidents

The CMHT:• Includes scientists who are experts inradiological assessment.• Assesses radiological dose, radiationrelated health effects and environmentalimpact, PAGs, mitigation processes, andconsequence management activities.• Provides interpretations of NARACpredictions.• Ensures the development, technicalintegrity, and scientific defensibility of allsummarized and assessed data products.• Performs assessment in the field, inconjunction with state and localrepresentatives.• Provides a reach-back capability toConsequence Management (CM) HomeTeams (RSL, NARAC, etc.).

• Improved capability for real-time data collection and reducing the human resourcesrequired to accomplish that data collection– Use of automated ECAMs with data telemetry capability• Taking advantage of CMHT concept to bridge initial emergency response phase of response– Back-up assessment capabilities supported by NASA ECAM downlink station at NARACand RAMS downlink at Remote Sensing Lab

Combined NASA, DOE, Air Force, State & County assets &personnel are working together to insure a robust deployment willbe in place to make prompt & comprehensive assessments andtake appropriate protective actions