On the Importance of the Jenn Gannon Storm of May 2024 for the Future of Human Exploration

During the Jenn Gannon Storm of May 2024, the Moon to Mars (M2M) Space Weather Analysis Office (SWAO) team extended its routine activities to provide longer and more comprehensive coverage while providing detailed updates to NASA Headquarters as the event progressed. Thanks to the low-latency data from the ESA/NASA Solar Orbiter collaboration mission, positioned on the far-side of the Sun during the event, as well as the MAVEN and Perseverance Rover located at Mars, the team was able to monitor the heliosphere throughout the event. In this presentation, we will provide an overview of our team's activities during the Jenn Gannon Storm of May 2024 and how this event along with others can help us prepare for future human exploration.

The Moon to Mars (M2M) Space Weather Analysis Office, located at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, conducts human-in-the-loop real-time space weather analysis in support of NASA robotic missions and human exploration activities. These activities are integrated in close collaboration with NASA’s Space Radiation Analysis Group (SRAG), the Community Coordinated Modeling Center (CCMC), and in partnership with NOAA’s Space Weather Prediction Center (SWPC). As part of NASA’s in-house research-to-operations-to-research (R2O2R) pipeline, M2M supports the validation of solar energetic particle (SEP) research model development, monitoring space weather impacts to NASA robotic missions, and making real-time and post-event analysis evaluations available in CCMC databases.