Status and Science ResultsD. S Burnett and Genesis Science Team

GPMC, Nov 2008

G E N E S I SContents

Slides

Background/Review Material 3-10

Ne Assessment of Concentrator Performance 11-12

N isotopes 13-23

Elemental Abundances 24-37

Contamination Issues 38-46

Status/Summary 47-54

G E N E S I SWhat: Mission in a Nutshell

• Placed a spacecraft outside the terrestrial magnetosphere

• Exposed Materials– Solar wind ions (keV/amu) implant and stick– Exposed for 27 months– Fluences low, so materials must be ultrapure.

• Returned materials to Earth for analysis in terrestrial laboratories.

G E N E S I SWhy: Genesis Science Objectives

• Provide solar isotopic abundances to level of precision required for planetary science purposes.

• Provide greatly improved knowledge of solar elemental abundances.

• Provide a reservoir of solar matter to meet the needs of 21st century planetary science.

• Provide elemental and isotopic data for the 3 different types (“regimes”) of solar wind.

G E N E S I SSolar Wind Regimes

• Three different kinds (“regimes”) of solar wind:– High speed (coronal hole)– Low speed (“interstream”)– Coronal Mass Ejections

• Genesis separately sampled each of 3 solar wind regimes as well as bulk solar wind:– Allows correction for differences in composition

between sun and solar wind– Agreement in derived solar composition from

different regimes validates correction procedures

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Al kidney

Canister Cover & Array

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G E N E S I SCanister and Collector Materials pre launch

Collector arrays

Thermal closeout

Al kidney (PAC)

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G E N E S I SAnalysis Overview

• Genesis sample analysis/testing is proceeding on a broad front in 28 laboratories worldwide.

• Rates vary, but progress is being made.

• The goal of Genesis is quantitative data; great emphasis on getting numbers right.

• A major advantage of sample return missions is that important data can be verified, and in most cases, replicated with different techniques.

• A major effort has been to make accurate, replicated measurements of the fluences of Mg and Ne. Most techniques can analyze one of these elements, which will then constitute primary quantitative reference fluences for other elements.

G E N E S I SAnalysis Overview, con’t

Two distinct requirements:

• Extract implanted solar wind from collector materials.

• Analyzed extracted solar wind.

Can mix and match approaches for extraction and analysis.

Mass spectrometry is the most widely-used analysis technique.

G E N E S I SScience Team Analysis Methods

• Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry (SIMS)– Solar wind extracted by ion beam sputtering

• Gas Source Mass Spectrometry– Extraction by laser ablation or chemical etching (HNO3, Hg)

• Resonance Ionization Mass Spectrometry (RIMS)– Extraction by ion beam sputtering

• Total Reflection X-ray Fluorescence– in-situ analysis; unique in not requiring extraction. – essentially non-destructive.

• Inductively-coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometry– Extraction by differential chemical etching

• Accelerator Mass Spectrometry– Extraction by differential chemical etching.

• Radiochemical Neutron Activation Analysis– Extraction by differential chemical etching.

G E N E S I SIn-flight Concentrator Performance from analysis of Au cross. (V. Heber, ETH, Zurich)

Recovered Targets and Holder

Au cross held targets in place

Ne can be measured on mm-size spots by laser ablation.

Agreement of 12 and 9:00 arms shown in figures. Data for all 4 arms agree. Very important: no azimuthal SW inhomogeneities in targets.

G E N E S I SNe analyses of SiC Concentrator Target

• The Ne analyses of the Concentrator Au cross have been very important, but to enable a correction for Concentrator isotopic fractionation of O and N, the lack of complete agreement between the theoretical and measured Ne profiles must be understood.

• The disagreement may not be due to uncertainties in the modeling because of the limitations of the Au cross as a target material.

– Significant backscattering corrections are required and these must allow for the effect of non-normal incidence of the ions.

– Heber et al (LPSC 2008) found that the TRIM backscattering model overcorrected the independently-known Ne fluence for collector array AuoS samples.

– The Au cross surface is rough. Implant experiments allow an approximate correction for the surface roughness effects and a test of the TRIM calculations for non-normal incidence.

– The final evaluation of the implant experiments is in progress; nevertheless, it is clear that sufficient residual uncertainties will remain.

• A measurement of the Ne fluence on a Concentrator target is required.– Only mm or smaller areas are required.

– The Allocation Committee has approved the transfer of the 60001 SiC quadrant used for O analysis at UCLA to ETH Zurich for Ne analysis.

– A single Ar isotopic measurment may be made to verify results from Nancy which show that the Concentrator quantitatively collected Ar ions.

G E N E S I SThe isotopic composition of N shows wide variations in solar system materials. Focus here on Earth-Jupiter difference.

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G E N E S I SN isotope analysis status

• This is our #2 measurement objective.

• Samples of Au-on-sapphire (AuoS) have been allocated to two laboratories:– U. Minn (release and analysis of N2 by room temperature amalgamation)

– CRPG Nancy, France (laser depth profiling with analysis of N2)

• more details on following slides.

• Nancy also allocated “Au cross” frame from Concentrator target holder.

• Distinctly different analysis techniques are being used, so if consistent results can be obtained, great confidence can be attached to the results.

G E N E S I SNancy (B. Marty) measurement of 15N/14N

• Approach is laser ablation of AuoS or Au cross from concentrator target holder.

• Implants show release of N as N2 with 100% yield.

• Ne measured as control element in flight samples; allows partitioning of measured N in terms of terrestrial contamination and solar wind.

• Multi step extraction: laser ablation depth profiling.– 1st steps should remove any N from particulate contamination.– Depth profiling is carried out varying the number of laser pulses in a controlled manner. – Maxmize SW recovery relative to background contamination by following release of solar

wind 20Ne.– Ablation stopped prior to reaching Au-sapphire interface avoiding this source of

contamination N.

• Brown stain removed by uv ozone in collaboration with Open U (S. Sestak).

• Procedural blanks at 10% solar wind levels, which is good.

• Impurity level of N in both materials is a serious problem.– Au cross has more solar wind N but also more impurity N,

• net improvement in precision, though.

• Details in following slides.

G E N E S I S Laser (193 nm) ablation – static MS

•Static MS• He, Ne, N, Ar abundances and isotopic ratios

• 26 months to decrease nitrogen procedural blanks to 4 x 10-13 mol N2

• N blank < 10 % analyzed N

Laurent Zimmermann

Following 5 slides from paper submitted to Geostandards & Geoanalytical Research

G E N E S I SDepth profile of laser ablation pit in Au test sample.

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G E N E S I SQuantitative recovery from 15N implant into Au

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G E N E S I SQuantitative recovery of Ne from flight Au cross

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: Extraction yield of neon implanted in gold cross arm N°60009.01. At 1 pulse/spot, 1 we have on ly 3% extract ion of SW Ne. The second ab lat ion (25 pu lses/s pot) and 2 third (12 pu lses/ spot) increase the extract ion yie ld to 86% and 13% respe ctive ly. The 3 fina l ab lat ion (12 pulses/spo t), which extracts 4% of so lar neon, sho w that SW Ne is 4 complete ly extracte d after 63 pulses/spot 5

G E N E S I SAgreement of Au cross 20Ne with Heber et al data (slide 11)

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Concentrator has gradient of Ne (see slide 11) which causes observed variations.

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Au cross data have highest proportion of solar/background N

Calculated mixing line for samples with mixture of terrestrial and Jupiter N

With new data, and especially a revised Ne/N SW ratio, results consistent with Sun = Jupiter, rather than Sun = Earth.

G E N E S I SPlan B for N

• Analyses at both Nancy and Minnesota have been limited by high amounts of N impurities in Au collector materials.

• This possibility was anticipated in mission planning, and 1/4 quadrants in Concentrator target contained a Sandia diamond-like-C (DOS) sample from which N should be analyzable by stepwise combustion or possibly by SIMS.

– This quadrant was broken in the crash, but most pieces have been recovered.

• Stepwise combustion efforts are underway at Open U (England) and U. Minnesota.– Prelaunch tests at Minnesota had shown ≈ 50% recovery on 15N implants , but 2008 OU

experiments did not recover 15N until the Si substrate of the DOS was dissolved away. This discrepancy remains unresolved.

• SIMS isotopic analyses in collector array Si and DOS samples have failed. – With the indication of Jupiter-like N in the revised Nancy data, it was important to try. SIMS

sensitivity is adequate.– Impact mixing effects prevent SIMS solar wind N analysis in the first 500 A; instrumental

background dominates at depths beyond 1500A, but for 500-1500 A solar wind dominates under good vacuum conditions of CalTech 7f instrument.

– Distinguishing between terrestrial and Jupiter-like N potentially feasible.– With Si, 15N measured as 28Si15N+ at mass 43, but much larger amounts of 29Si14N cannot

be mass-resolved.– Measurement from DOS should be feasible, as 12C15N- is resolvable from all known

interferences, but a surface-correlated interference of unknown origin is present, even on control samples.

– Problems encountered with the 7f should be much less using the UCLA MegaSIMS.

G E N E S I SScience Issue: Do Sun and solar wind have same elemental composition?

Slides 24-27 are unchanged from May 2008 GPMC

• Spacecraft data have shown that high first ionization potential (FIP) elements are depleted in solar wind compared to solar surface (photosphere).– e.g. Fe/He is higher in SW than in photosphere.

• Data for most easily-ionized elements (FIP < 9eV) appear unfractionated.– Most of elements in terrestrial planets have FIP<9eV

• Genesis will provide a better test, but never will escape need to know a few photospheric elemental ratios accurately.

• If fractionations due only to first ionization potentials, solar wind and photosphere isotope ratios expected to be same.

G E N E S I SFractionation Factor

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G E N E S I SFe/Mg analyses by SIMS (Jurewicz et al., ASU)

• Details of analyses in Nov. 2007 GPMC; not repeated here.

• Major discrepancy in Mg fluence between Si and DOS (Sandia) when “external” implant standard used.

• Discrepancy eliminated by implanting known fluence of 25Mg as internal standard into flight samples. (following slide).

• Unlike Mg, good agreement for Fe fluence obtained between two materials.

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G E N E S I SOrigin of Mg Fluence Discrepancy between Si and Sandia

• Obvious difference is presence of large amount of H in flight samples which is not present in Mg implants.

• H implanted into Mg implants at collector array fluences to match Mg implant depth distributions.

• Compared (Jurewicz, Hervig; ASU) H and No-H implants for both Si and Sandia.– Any difference in Mg sensitivity factors less than 5% for both materials.

• Overall good news; no evidence that SIMS implant standards must have H.

• Disagreement in older Mg fluences remains unexplained.

G E N E S I SEffect of SIMS analytical conditions on Mg fluences.

• Good agreement for Sandia and Si with internal standard (2 slides previous) in part due to strict control of analytical conditions:– All samples analyzed in center hole of same multi-hole sample mount.

– Sufficiently large sample used to fill the hole in the mount; no free edges showing.

– Analyze at least 1.5 mm from edge of mount.

• New tests of effect of control of analytical conditions (ASU 8-08) for Mg fluences in Sandia using external standard (next slide).

• In addition to above, energy slits for C+ reference ions opened wide. C+ energy spectrum very different from Mg+.

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“Error” bars represent reproducibility of implant profiles. These are much smaller for 8-08 than observed for most (but not all) previous analyses.

8-08 fluences much closer to internal standard results (red points) than most (but not all) previous analyses. Nevertheless, 8-08 fluences are about 18% higher than internal standard fluences.

More work needed. Most SIMS fluences can be measured on Si but some (e.g. Si fluence) will require Sandia.

G E N E S I SComparison with photosphere and spacecraft Fe/Mg

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Most compilations of “solar” elemental abundances based on CI chondritic meteorites. Justification for this is agreement with photospheric abundances. Genesis Fe/Mg, at present, distinct from CI ratio, but systematic errors in implant fluences must be assessed before final conclusions drawn. Goal will be to maintain precision as on figure, but Fe/Mg value could change.

G E N E S I SPlan to check Mg/Fe implant fluences

• One set of Fe implants are available (Kroko 2005).– 3 separate implants: 56Fe at 5e15/cm2, 56Fe at 4e13/cm2, 54Fe at 2e13/cm2.– SW fluence data on Sandia (diamond-like-C), SoS, and Si.– Fluence can be independently analyzed accurately on the 5e15/cm2 Si implant by

isotopic dilution using ICPMS (FSU).– Accurate measurement of high fluence implant in one material applies to all

materials in same implant.– Sandia data based on 4e13/cm2 implant but accurate measurement of relative

fluence measurement by SIMS of 5e15 and 4e13 Sandia implants is possible (ASU, CIW).

– High fluence implant also calibrated by RBS (ASU).• RBS data agree well with ion implanter fluence.• Also show that fluence uniformity to better than 1%.

G E N E S I SPlan to check Mg/Fe implant fluences, con’t

• Three sets of 25Mg implants are available– HRL 2002, Kroko 2006, Kroko 2007 (K7)..– SW data based on Si and Sandia using K7 internal standard implants into flight

sample.– Control pieces of Si included in flight sample implants (K7A).– 2007 implant has high fluence 25Mg implant (K7C) which can be analyzed

accurately by isotopic dilution.– Independent calibrations by TIMS (JPL) and ICPMS (FSU) in progress.– relative K7C and K7A fluences for other implants can be measured precisely by

SIMS• Replicate measurements at ASU and CIW have been carried out• Data processing in progress. Complications with dead time in high fluence

samples, transient sputtering effects are under control.• Precision of profilometry pit depths is a remaining issue (next page)

G E N E S I SPrecision of sputter pit depth measurements.

• SIMS solar wind fluences based on concentration depth integral.

• Depth scale requires post-analysis measurement of depth of sputter pit.

• Discrepancy on some of the CIW K7C implant (previous page) pit depths:• Two different instruments have been used. Interferometer (UCLA, CIT) and

stylus profilometers (ASU, NIST).• Two separate intercomparisons of ASU and UCLA have given good

agreement.• A subset of the CIW K7C pits show a systematic 10% difference between the

interferometer and stylus profilometer depths.• Two different instruments of each kind agree with each other, but the inter-

instrument difference remains.• Additional work is needed, but we may just have to live with this discrepancy.

G E N E S I S Cleaning up to Recover Science after Crash

Three necessary steps to recovery of science objectives:

1. Recover Collector Materials intact. DoneExpected 250 samples, have ~ 15,000 > 3mm; 1700 > 1 cm .

Priority given to allocation, but major progress made on catalogs, see JSC GPMC contribution or Genesis JSC web page.

2. Remove surface contamination.

3. Learn to allocate and analyze smaller samples than planned. Items 2 and 3 being worked simultaneously.

Slides 38-40 have only minor changes from those used in previous GPMC, but are repeated here to as background material to our overall approach to contamination and cleaning issues.

G E N E S I SBasic Approach:

• Contamination levels are highly variable.• Cleanliness requirements vary for different analytical techniques.• No one-size-fits-all solution.

• Basic Curatorial cleaning services: UPW, uv-ozone.

• Rest is responsibility of PIs– but Curatorial Facility supports with characterization

• Particle counting• Ellipsometry• XPS

• Ellipsometry doesn’t work for some materials and doesn’t give quantitative information, so continued major use of photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS)

G E N E S I SBrown Stain

Non-crash issue

• Polymerized organic contamination film (‘brown stain”)– Thicknesses measured by ellipsometry (JSC,) XPS (EAG, JPL), and FIB/TEM (LLNL).–Up to about 75 A thick, but– Highly variable; some samples appear essentially free of stain.

• If less than 100A: negligible SW attenuation ( C. Olinger, LANL calculations).

• Brown stain must be removed for most, but not all, analyses:

• uv-ozone (demonstrated by Open U) most successful to date.– JSC unit is operational and demonstrated to remove C effectively

• For some applications, greater amount of removal may be required.– good correlation between XPS and ellipsometery on same Si samples.

We have learned to work around Brown Stain.

Important Boundary Condition:

• Because amounts of contamination highly variable, cherry-picking good (low brown stain) samples is an acceptable contamination control.

G E N E S I S Brown stain removal by fluorination

(Chakraburty, Thiemens, UCSD)

Specific Options

• Fluorination (F2 reacts rapidly with hydrocarbons)

• Laser fluorination

• Laser ablation.

Various combinations of these have been tried on small flight diamond-like-C (aka DOS, Sandia) collector array samples. (no SiC array test samples)

– Assumes brown stain same material on DOS array and SiC target samples.– Verify brown stain levels by XPS prior to treatment.– Assess brown stain removal by XPS after treatment.

All samples pick up F, presumably as fluorocarbon deposit, even with no F2

added to chamber.

Hard to assess brown stain removal; fluorcarbons may bury brown stain.

UCSD focus is on O analysis of SiC Concentrator Target.Previous XPS studies have shown good removal of implant hydrocarbons from

SiC, but these not necessarily same as brown stain. Don’t have small array test pieces of SiC; must stay with DOS as closest analog.

Plan to verify uv-ozone cleaning of brown stain from DOS (next page)

G E N E S I Suv-ozone cleaning of DOS

XPS studies show uv-ozone cleaning removes brown stain for Si.– Brown stain is a polymerized silicone; HF treatment necessary to

remove residual SiO2 from uv-ozone.

• but acid treatment removal of particulate contaminants necessary in any case.

• DOS is C, but uv-ozone treatment of DOS implant sample shows that standard 2 hour treatment would not significantly etch solar wind.

• XPS studies of HF-etched samples of uv-ozone treated flight collector array DOS sample to demonstrate effectiveness of uv-ozone cleaning of DOS in progress.

G E N E S I SParticulate Contamination; overview.

Crash-related issue: Particulate contamination on all samples.

• Variety of wet cleaning techniques work to varying degrees:– Any solvent (e.g. ultra pure water) will take off 1/2-2/3 of particles and

almost all big (>5 micron) ones.– For most samples, JSC Megasonic ultra-pure-H2O (UPW) in routine

use for materials for which this possible.

• Particulate contamination is the major obstacle to completion of the Genesis science objectives.– Our success so far has been with techniques such as SIMS that can

analyze areas of 100-200 micron size, can dodge micron-size particles and can recognize and afford to lose a particle-contaminated profile.

– None of these benefits are available to large ( > 1 cm size ) samples for which in some cases a single contaminant particle can ruin the analysis.

– Some of the science objectives require analysis of large areas.

G E N E S I SParticulate contamination, summary to date

Micro90(commercial soap)(+- hot xylene): significant (x10/100 reduction)– These 2005 studies for Mg(Si) complicated by lack of understanding of SIMS

transient sputtering effects; confirmation required.

• HF: can add residue particles (Westphal), but less apparent on controls (SIMS)

• HF/H2O2: Adds residue particles on controls and flight samples (SIMS).

• “Glove Micro90”(rubbing sample in latex glove with Micro90) after HF or HF/H2O2; removes residue particles.

• H2SO4/H2O2 (Piranha). Used with some success on sapphire, but significant levels remain (Brennan, Pianetto SSRL)

• HF/HCl (“SC2”) good results in removing Na contamination on Si for SIMS analysis, although TRXRF analyses (May GPMC report) showed significant quantities of many elements.

G E N E S I SParticulate contamination, summary, con’t

• “A2” mixture of HF/HCl/H2O2; good results in removing inorganic contamination as mesured by XPS on SiC and CVD diamond and on control Si, but SRTRXRF on flight sapphire (Kitts, APS) showed significant contamination remained below XPS sensitivity levels.

– Work in progress to identify lab TRXRF facility; intermediate sensitivity between XPS and SRTRXRF.

• Aqua Regia (Huang/Humayun, FSU; removal of Mg and Fe surface contamination without etching solar wind).

– SEM examination of aqua regia etched flight SoS sample shows only sapphire particles (Kuhlman, U. Wisc). This is encouraging, but extended aqua regia etching (Huang and Humayun, LPSC 2008 abstract) shows that contamination is tenacious.

G E N E S I SSEM studies of particles (Kuhlman, PSI, Wisconsin)

• Flight Si sample 60125 was particle cleaned with HF-HCl-H2O2 mixture A2 at Caltech.

• 67 of the remaining particles down to 0.3-0.5 micron identified by SEM by Kuhlman.

• No Utahogenic particles, stainless steel or Ge were found. These were probably present, and absence attributable to acid cleaning.

• Remaining particles were Si (probably collector array material), white paint crystals, and C (probably from SRC heat shield).

– all previous studies indicate that micron-sized crash-derived Si particles on Si are difficult to remove. Some kind of impact welding has been suggested but this is speculation. Presumably this material is not a source of contamination in most applications.

– White paint crystals are expected to be chemically resistant. They make large area analyses of Zn and Ga impossible, but effects on other elements unknown. It would be good to be able to remove them.

– C particles are a serious problem for large area analysis of C or N.• need to check on uv-ozone treated sample.

G E N E S I STop Level Status Summary (unchanged)

• The bar has been raised considerably by crash, but not giving up on any of our measurement objectives.

• Particulate contamination is our biggest challenge, but

• Optimism is justified by fact that contamination is on the surface,

• And solar wind is below the surface.

• The separation between dirt and signal is small (typically 100A).

• But, being a sample return mission, all of contemporary science and technology is available to clean the surfaces without disturbing the implanted solar wind.

• With some luck, major effect will be delay in results.

G E N E S I S Specific Measurement Objectives

(prioritized). Prelaunch.

(1) O isotopes.

(2) N isotopes in bulk solar wind.(3) Noble gas elements and isotopes.(4) Noble gas elements and isotopes; regimes.

(5) C isotopes.

(6) C isotopes in different solar wind regimes.(7) Mg,Ca,Ti,Cr,Ba isotopes.(8) Key First Ionization Potential Elements(9) Mass 80-100 and 120-140 elemental abundance patterns.(10) Survey of solar-terrestrial isotopic differences.(11) Noble gas and N, elements and isotopes for higher energy solar particles.(12) Li/Be/B elemental and isotopic abundances.(13) Radioactive nuclei in the solar wind. (14) F abundance.(15) Pt-group elemental abundances.(16) Key s-process heavy elements.(17) Heavy-light element comparisons.(18) Solar rare earth elements abundance pattern.(19) Comparison of solar and chondritic elemental abundances.Measurement of bulk solar wind except when noted.

G E N E S I SColor-coded Science Assessment; updated 2/08

• Measurement can definitely be made

• Should be Possible

• Challenging

• Very Challenging

• Not Possible

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G E N E S I S Specific Measurement Objectives

(prioritized)(1) O isotopes.

(2) N Isotopes in bulk solar wind.(3) Noble gas Elements and Isotopes. (He, Ne, Ar Kr, Xe)(4) Noble gas Elements and Isotopes; regimes (He Ne Ar, Kr, Xe).

(5) C Isotopes(6) C Isotopes in different solar wind regimes.(7) Mg,Ca,Ti,Cr,Ba Isotopes.(8) Key First Ionization Potential Elements (Na, Mg, Fe, Si, Ca, Cr, Ni, C, N, etc)

(9) Mass 80-100 and 120-140 Elemental abundance patterns.(10) Survey of solar-terrestrial Isotopic differences.(11) Noble gas Elements and Isotopes: higher energy solar particles.(12) Li/Be/B Elemental and Isotopic abundances.(13) Radioactive nuclei in the solar wind. (14) F abundance.(15) Pt-group Elemental abundances.(16) Key s-process heavy Elements.(17) Heavy-light Element comparisons.(18) Solar rare earth Elements abundance pattern.(19) Comparison of solar and chondritic elemental abundances.

G E N E S I SSummary (essentially unchanged)

• The bar has been raised considerably, but nothing is red even after 3 years.

• The amount of green is growing. Good prospects for (Cr, Mn, Ni) from TRXRF and Al from RIMS/ SIMS or ICPMS. There is a significant amount of blue. We are optimistic that blue will turn to green.

• Significant progress since hitting bottom on 9/8/04, but pushing forward on a broad front.

• With some luck, the major effect will only be a delay in science.