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Assessment of InSight Landing Site Predictions. [PDF]

J Geophys Res Planets, 2020
AbstractComprehensive analysis of remote sensing data used to select the Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport (InSight) landing site correctly predicted the atmospheric temperature and pressure profile during entry and descent, the safe landing surface, and the geologic setting of the site.
Golombek M, Kass D, Williams N, Warner N, Daubar I, Piqueux S, Charalambous C, Pike WT.   +7 more
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Morphological and Spectral Diversity of the Clay-Bearing Unit at the ExoMars Landing Site Oxia Planum

Astrobiology, 2021
The European Space Agency and Roscosmos' ExoMars rover mission, which is planned to land in the Oxia Planum region, will be dedicated to exobiology studies at the surface and subsurface of Mars.
Gabriele Cremonese, Nicolas Thomas, Erwin Dehouck   +2 more
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China's Chang'e-5 landing site: Geology, stratigraphy, and provenance of materials

Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 2021
China's Chang'e-5 (CE-5) mission, the first lunar sample return mission since 1976, landed at 43.06°N, 51.92°W on Dec. 1, 2020, in Northern Oceanus Procellarum.
Jiannan Zhao, Jiang Wang, Yuqi Qian
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Optimized Landing Site Selection at the Lunar South Pole: A Convolutional Neural Network Approach

IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing
The identification of optimal landing sites is a critical first step for successful missions to the Moon and other extraterrestrial bodies, necessitating the integration of various environmental factors over large spatial scales. At the lunar south pole,
Yongjiu Feng, Haoteng Li, Xiaohua Tong, Pengshuo Li, Rong Wang, Shurui Chen, Mengrong Xi, Jingbo Sun, Yuhao Wang, Huaiyu He, Chao Wang, Xiong Xu, Huan Xie, Yanmin Jin, Sicong Liu   +14 more
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Fluvial Regimes, Morphometry, and Age of Jezero Crater Paleolake Inlet Valleys and Their Exobiological Significance for the 2020 Rover Mission Landing Site

Astrobiology, 2020
Jezero crater has been selected as the landing site for the Mars 2020 Perseverance rover, because it contains a paleolake with two fan-deltas, inlet and outlet valleys.
Nicolas Mangold, Cathy Quantin, Maarten G Kleinhans   +2 more
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Meteorological Predictions for <i>Mars 2020 Perseverance Rover</i> Landing Site at Jezero Crater. [PDF]

Space Sci Rev, 2020
The Mars Regional Atmospheric Modeling System (MRAMS) and a nested simulation of the Mars Weather Research and Forecasting model (MarsWRF) are used to predict the local meteorological conditions at the Mars 2020 Perseverance rover landing site inside ...
Pla-García J, Rafkin SCR, Martinez GM, Vicente-Retortillo Á, Newman CE, Savijärvi H, de la Torre M, Rodriguez-Manfredi JA, Gómez F, Molina A, Viúdez-Moreiras D, Harri AM.   +11 more
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Selection of Lunar South Pole Landing Site Based on Constructing and Analyzing Fuzzy Cognitive Maps

Remote Sensing, 2022
The Permanently Shadowed Regions (PSRs) of the lunar south pole have never been directly sampled. To explore and discover lunar resources, the Chinese lunar south pole exploration mission is scheduled to land in direct sunlight near the PSR, where ...
Yutong Jia, Lei Liu, Xingchen Wang, Ningbo Guo, Gang Wan   +4 more
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Descent trajectory reconstruction and landing site positioning of Chang'E-4 on the lunar farside. [PDF]

Nat Commun, 2019
Chang’E-4 (CE-4) was the first mission to accomplish the goal of a successful soft landing on the lunar farside. The landing trajectory and the location of the landing site can be effectively reconstructed and determined using series of images obtained ...
Liu J, Ren X, Yan W, Li C, Zhang H, Jia Y, Zeng X, Chen W, Gao X, Liu D, Tan X, Zhang X, Ni T, Zhang H, Zuo W, Su Y, Wen W.   +16 more
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Thermal Modeling of the Lunar Regolith at the Chang'E‐4 Landing Site

Geophysical Research Letters, 2021
Accurate assessments of surface temperatures on the Moon are important for understanding the physical properties of the lunar surface regolith and thermal effects on the reflectance spectra beyond 2 μm.
Honglei Lin, Shuai Li, Yangting Lin, Yang Liu, Yong Wei, Wei Yang, Yazhou Yang, Sen Hu, Xing Wu, Rui Xu, Chunlai Li, Zhiping He   +11 more
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The Lunar Regolith Thickness and Stratigraphy of the Chang’E-6 Landing Site

Remote Sensing
The Chang’E-6 (CE-6) mission successfully returned 1935.3 g of lunar soil samples from the Apollo basin within the South Pole–Aitken basin. One of its scientific objectives is to investigate the subsurface structure and regolith thickness at the landing ...
Jin Li, Chengxiang Yin, Siyue Chi, Wenshuo Mao, Xiaohui Fu, Jiang Zhang   +5 more
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