The 12th annual NASA Planetary Science Summer School at Caltech is titled, "Discovery Micromissions: Focused Low Cost Science." Scheduled for August 7-11, 2000, the program is directed toward PhD candidates and recent (within 5 years) PhD graduates. The students will select a mission target and then learn how to do a preliminary design to accomplish certain scientific goals. The Discovery class of missions is NASA's "faster-better-cheaper" program of low-cost, high quality, science investigations.

Sponsored by the NASA Office of Space Science and organized by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, the event features both lectures and a hands-on opportunity to design a mission utilizing JPL's Project Design Center. There is no registration fee and there are no texts, no exams and no credit is offered.

Applications must be submitted by June 11, 2000.

See the Summer School home page for more detailed information and an application form.

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