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NLSI Focus Group on Missing ALSEP Data Recovery: Progress and Plans [PDF]
, 2011 On the six Apollo landed missions, the Astronauts deployed the Apollo Lunar Surface Experiments Package (ALSEP) science stations which measured active and passive seismic events, magnetic fields, charged particles, solar wind, heat flow, the diffuse ...
Chi, P. +7 more
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A New Detailed Global Map of Lunar Light Plains
The Planetary Science JournalLunar light plains (LPs) are globally distributed, smooth and flat geologic units occurring in crater floors and topographic lows, similar in morphology to mare basalts, but with moderate to high albedo.
Barbara Giuri +3 more
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Geoscience and a Lunar Base: A Comprehensive Plan for Lunar Exploration [PDF]
This document represents the proceedings of the Workshop on Geoscience from a Lunar Base. It describes a comprehensive plan for the geologic exploration of the Moon.
Spudis, Paul D., Taylor, G. Jeffrey
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LunaNet: a Flexible and Extensible Lunar Exploration Communications and Navigation Infrastructure [PDF]
NASA has set the ambitious goal of establishing a sustainable human presence on the Moon. Diverse commercial and international partners are engaged in this effort to catalyze scientific discovery, lunar resource utilization and economic development on ...
Christe, Steven D. +8 more
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Weak Dust Activity Near a Geologically Young Surface Revealed by Chang'E‐3 Mission
Geophysical Research Letters, 2019 In spite of great scientific and engineering interests in lunar exploration, natural dust activity near the Moon surface remains unclear. According to distinct reflectance features of lunar rocks and regolith observed by Chang'E‐3 mission, long‐term dust
Qi Yan +8 more
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Lunar science from lunar laser ranging [PDF]
Seventeen years of lunar ranging data have been analyzed to determine lunar second-degree moment differences, third-degree gravitational harmonics, Love number, rotational dissipation and retroreflector ...
Dickey, J. O. +2 more
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Earth and Space ScienceThe Lunar Trailblazer smallsat mission High‐resolution Volatiles and Minerals Moon Mapper (HVM3) science instrument was designed to acquire targeted spectral image cubes of the lunar surface at visible to shortwave infrared (VSWIR) wavelengths (0.6–3.6 ...
Angela M. Dapremont +13 more
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Support and servicing requirements for large observatories in space [PDF]
The concept of lunar optical and IR observatories is a natural step in the total utilization of the space environment for the benefit of science. Among the challenges associated with this remote observatory concept is the requirement for the support and ...
Styczynski, Thomas E.
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Crustal heterogeneity of the moon viewed from the Galileo SSI camera: Lunar sample calibrations and compositional implications [PDF]
Summaries are given of the spectral calibration, compositional parameters, nearside color, and limb and farside color of the Moon. The farside of the Moon, a large area of lunar crust, is dominated by heavily cratered terrain and basin deposits that ...
Becker, T. +9 more
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