Kevin Hand
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Current Projects
- Astrobiology of Icy Worlds — 2014 NAI
- Investigation 3: Detectability of Icy Worlds — 2013 NAI
- Investigation 2: Survivability on Icy Worlds — 2013 NAI
- Path to Flight — 2012 NAI
- Survivability of Icy Worlds — 2012 NAI
- Detectability of Life — 2012 NAI
- Survivability of Icy Worlds — 2011 NAI
- Path to Flight — 2011 NAI
- Detectability of Life — 2011 NAI
- Habitability of Icy Worlds — 2011 NAI
- Habitability of Icy Worlds — 2010 NAI
- Survivability of Icy Worlds — 2010 NAI
- Detectability of Life — 2010 NAI
- Path to Flight — 2010 NAI
- Astrobiology of Icy Worlds — 2009 NAI
- MBC Mission Development — 2009 NAI
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NAI Project Collaborators
- Project collaborators as reported by the latest NAI Annual Report.
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Publications
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Hand, K. P., & Carlson, R. W. (2011). H2O2 production by high-energy electrons on icy satellites as a function of surface temperature and electron flux. Icarus, 215(1), 226–233. doi:10.1016/j.icarus.2011.06.031
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Hand, K. P., & Carlson, R. W. (2012). Laboratory spectroscopic analyses of electron irradiated alkanes and alkenes in solar system ices. Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets, 117(E3), n/a–n/a. doi:10.1029/2011je003888
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Hand, K. P., Khurana, K. K., & Chyba, C. F. (2011). Joule heating of the south polar terrain on Enceladus. Journal of Geophysical Research, 116(E4), None. doi:10.1029/2010je003776
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Korablev, O., Gerasimov, M., Brad Dalton, J., Hand, K., Lebreton, J-P., & Webster, C. (2011). Methods and measurements to assess physical and geochemical conditions at the surface of Europa. Advances in Space Research, 48(4), 702–717. doi:10.1016/j.asr.2010.12.010
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Lazcano, A., & Hand, K. P. (2012). Astrobiology: Frontier or fiction. Nature, 488(7410), 160–161. doi:10.1038/488160a
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Sparks, W. B., McGrath, M., Hand, K., Ford, H. C., Geissler, P., Hough, J. H., … Turnbull, M. (2010). Hubble Space Telescope observations of Europa in and out of eclipse. International Journal of Astrobiology, 9(04), 265–271. doi:10.1017/s1473550410000285
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Wilson, J. P., Grotzinger, J. P., Fischer, W. W., Hand, K. P., Jensen, S., Knoll, A. H., … Tice, M. M. (2012). DEEP-WATER INCISED VALLEY DEPOSITS AT THE EDIACARAN-CAMBRIAN BOUNDARY IN SOUTHERN NAMIBIA CONTAIN ABUNDANT TREPTICHNUS PEDUM. PALAIOS, 27(4), 252–273. doi:10.2110/palo.2011.p11-036r
See Project - Adams, H.E., Hand, K.P., Murray, A.E., Lyons, B. & Priscu, J.C. (In Preparation). Distribution of bacterial communities, activity, and carbon sources in Alaskan coastal plain lakes. See Project
- Cassidy, T., Coll, P., Raulin, F., Carlson, R.W., Johnson, R.E., Loeffler, M.J., Hand, K.P. & Baragiola, R.A. (2010, In Press). Radiolysis and Photolysis in Moons of the Outer Solar System: Exchange Processes Involving the Interiors’. O. Grassett. See Project
- Clark, K., Boldt, J., Greeley, R., Hand, K.P., Jun, I., Lock, R., Pappalardo, R.T., Van Houten, T. & Yan, T. (2009). Return to Europa: Overview of the Jupiter Europa Orbiter Mission. Advances in Space Research Special Issue on Europa Lander Workshop. Moscow, Russia. See Project
- Hand, K.P. & Painter, T.H. (2010). Fall AGU Mtg. See Project
- Hand, K.P. (2010). The ocean of Europa and implications for habitability and the origin of life. Astrobiology: from simple molecules to primitive lif. Eds. V.A. Basiuk and R. Navarro-Gonzalez. See Project
- Hand, K.P. (2011). On the Coming Age of Ocean Exploration. In: Brockman, M. (Eds.). Future Science. See Project
- Hand, K.P. Outer planet satellites as potential crucibles for life: extraterrestrial and terrestrial. UN meeting. See Project
- Hand, K.P., Chyba, C.F., Priscu, J.C., Carlson, R.W. & Nealson, K.H. (2009). Astrobiology and the Potential for Life on Europa. In: Pappalardo, R., McKinnon, W. & K., K. (Eds.). In Europa. Univ. of AZ Press. See Project
- Khurana, K.K., Kivelson, M.G., Hand, K.P. & Russell, C.T. (2009). Electromagnetic induction from Europa’s ocean and the deep interio. In: Pappalardo, R., McKinnon, W. & Khurana, K. (Eds.). Europa. Univ. of AZ Press. See Project
- Korablev, O., Gerasimov, M., Dalton, J.B., Hand, K.P., Lebreton & J.-P., W.C. (2009). Methods and Measurements to Assess Physical and Geochemical Conditions at the Surface of Europa. Advances in Space Research Special Issue on Europa Lander Workshop. Moscow, Russia. See Project
- Lorenz, R.D., Gleeson, D., Prieto-Ballesteros, Gomez, F., Hand, K.P. & Bulat, S. (2009). Analog Environments for a Europa Lander Mission. Advances in Space Research Special Issue on Europa Lander Workshop. Moscow, Russia. See Project
- Mumma, M., Des Marais, D.J., Baross, J., Sherwood Lollar, B., Hand, K., Villanueva, G., House, C., Ferry, G., McCollom, T., Sotin, C., Goldman, S., Vance, S. & Painter, T. (2010). The astrobiology of Mars: Methane and other candidate biomarker gases, and related interdisciplinary studies on Earth and Mars [abstract 5590]. Astrobiology Science Conference 2010. See Project
- Priscu, J.C. & Hand, K.P. (2012). Microbial Habitability of Icy Worlds. Microbe, 7(4): 167-172. See Project
- Raulin, F., Hand, K.P., McKay, C., Fortes, D. & Viso, M. (2010, In Press). Exobiology, Habitability, and Planetary Protection in Moons of the Outer Solar System: Exchange Processes Involving the Interiors’. In: Grassett, O. (Eds.). See Project
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