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Overview of lunar exploration and International Lunar Research Station [PDF]

Chinese Science Bulletin, 2020
As the only natural satellite of the Earth, the Moon is the first target for human space exploration, due to its unique location, highly characteristic environmental resources and abundant material resources. The Earth-Moon system is the proving ground for the exploration of the solar system, and the Moon is a transit point towards farther deep space ...
Zhaoyu Pei, Jizhong Liu, Qian Wang, Yan Kang, Yongliao Zou, He Zhang, Yuhua Zhang, Huaiyu He, Qiong Wang, Ruihong Yang, Wei Wang, Jinan Ma   +11 more
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The Lunar Environment [PDF]

, 1960
The NASA lunar exploration program has focused the attention of many scientific and technical groups on such questions as the relative value of lunar experiments, the advantages of manned versus unmanned exploration, and the proper time sequence for the ...
Buwalda, Phyllis
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Photocatalytic Water Splitting on the Lunar Surface: Prospects for In Situ Resource Utilization

Advanced Materials Interfaces, EarlyView.
Water has been found in craters on the moon nearby locations which are illuminated >80% of the time. Photocatalysis uses energy from sunlight to drive chemical reactions such as water splitting to produce oxygen and hydrogen. It is a scalable technology that requires lighter equipment and utilizes resources available on the moon. ABSTRACT The discovery
Ranjani Kalyan, Thomas D. Small, Gregory F. Metha, Mahmoud Adel Hamza, Thomas J. O'Dea, Yideng Shen, Cameron J. Shearer   +6 more
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An Empirical Model to Estimate Abundance of Nanophase Metallic Iron (npFe⁰) in Lunar Soils

Remote Sensing, 2020
Lunar soils gradually become mature when they are exposed to a space environment, and nanophase metallic iron (npFe0) generates within them. npFe0 significantly changes the optical properties of lunar soils and affects the interpretation of the remotely ...
Dawei Liu, Yuanzhi Zhang, Guangliang Zhang, Bin Liu, Xin Ren, Rui Xu, Chunlai Li   +6 more
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Strong Lateral Confinement of Hydrophilic Silica Nanoparticles on Mg‐Al Layered Double Hydroxides Nanoflakes for Enhanced Thermal Properties

Advanced Materials Interfaces, EarlyView.
A nanostructured, naturally flame‐retardant, and non‐toxic inorganic composite is introduced, which is laterally associated with silica nanoparticles to induce the restacking of the LDH lamella structure, thereby serving as an efficient thermal insulator.
Gayani Pathiraja, Jeffrey Ayerh, Abhijeet Mali, Md Arifur Rahman Khan, Anna Sheets, Shobha Mantripragada, Sherine O. Obare, Tetyana Ignatova   +7 more
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Geological characteristics of Chang’E-6 landing area in micro-scale unveiled by new observation data

Nature Communications
Chang’E-6 mission successfully achieved humanity’s first sample return from the farside of the Moon. Here, we report a high-precision terrain dataset with millimeter-to-decimeter spatial resolution around the CE-6 landing site. Based on this dataset, the
Wei Yan, Xingguo Zeng, Xin Ren, Wangli Chen, Xingye Gao, Wei Zuo, Bin Liu, Zhoubin Zhang, Qiang Fu, Jianjun Liu, Chunlai Li   +10 more
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Yutu-2 Radar Observations at the Chang’E-4 Landing Site: The Shallow Geological Structure and Its Dielectric Properties

Universe, 2023
China has successfully carried out five lunar exploration missions since 2007. These missions indicate that China has successfully implemented a three-step lunar exploration program of “orbiting, landing, and returning”. Among them, the Lunar Penetrating
Zhonghan Lei, Chunyu Ding
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Problems of Transition from Lunar Research to Lunar Exploration [PDF]

Aerospace Sphere Journal, 2020
All existing lunar programs are aimed at deepening the already received information about the Moon. At the same time, the tasks of the exploration of the Moon and its resources start to prevail. The second lunar race is precisely for the opportunity to build lunar bases in the most promising places.
Alexander V. Bagrov, Vladislav A. Leonov
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Nonlocomotory Robotic Strategies for Dynamic Rotation Control in Terrestrial Robots: A Review

Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
Terrestrial robots increasingly require rapid body rotation to maintain stability and agility in complex environments. This review shows nonlocomotory rotational control strategies that operate without ground contact, including reaction wheels, tails, bars, limbs, and thrusters.
Y. Liang, J. An, X. Zheng, D. Wang, S. Wang, X. Wang, P. Zhu, J. Pei, S. Li, J. Paripurana, Y. Han, Z. Tang, X. Gan, Q. He, X. Ma   +14 more
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LunaR: Overview of a versatile Raman spectrometer for lunar exploration

Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences, 2022
The LunaR concept study investigated the scientific value, feasibility, and deployment options for a Raman spectrometer on future lunar landed missions. It consists of a breadboard instrument that covers the 150–4000 cm−1 wavelength range with a resolution of ∼6 cm−1; Raman scattering is induced by a 532 nm continuous wave laser. The current conceptual
E. A. Cloutis, C. Caudill, E. A. Lalla, E. A. Lalla, J. Newman, M. Daly, E. Lymer, J. Freemantle, R. Kruzelecky, D. Applin, H. Chen, S. Connell, D. Fernandes, F. Giusto, J. Hawke, J. Lamamry, P. Murzionak, A. Parkinson, Q.-Y. Peng, N. Turenne, Z. U. Wolf   +20 more
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