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Development of icy regolith simulant for lunar permanently shadowed regions [PDF]

Advances in Space Research
The lunar poles are thought to contain vast ice deposits that could be beneficial to future space exploration efforts. However, it is not well characterized how water ice content affects regolith and dust physical properties. In order to develop suitable
Hannah Sargeant, Karlis Šļumba
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A Lunar Surface Operations Simulator

2008
The Lunar Surface Operations Simulator (LSOS) is being developed to support planning and design of space missions to return astronauts to the moon. Vehicles, habitats, dynamic and physical processes and related environment systems are modeled and simulated in LSOS to assist in the visualization and design optimization of systems for lunar surface ...
Nayar, H., Balaram, J., Cameron, J., Jain, A., Lim, C., Mukherjee, R., Peters, S., Pomerantz, M., Reder, L., Shakkottai, P., Wall, S   +10 more
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A navigation simulation system of lunar rover

2008 IEEE International Conference on Networking, Sensing and Control, 2008
This paper presents a navigation simulation system on lunar rover. With virtual reality technology, this system serves to verify the kinematics model and the validity of the planning-path for navigating lunar rover. Because the lunar terrain can not be treated as the 2D surface, the kinematics modeling of lunar rover unlike ordinary mobile robots needs
Ji Liu 0002, Yuechao Wang, Chuan Zhou 0010, Yanfeng Geng, Yang Cong   +4 more
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JSC-1A lunar soil simulant: Characterization, glass formation, and selected glass properties

Journal of Non-Crystalline Solids, 2010
The chemical composition of a volcanic ash deposited near Flagstaff, Arizona, USA closely resembles that of the soil from the Maria geological terrain of the Moon.
Sen, Sabhayu, S.T. Reis, Ray, C. S., C.S. Ray, J.S. O'Dell, O\u27Dell, J. S., S. Sen, Reis, Signo Tadeu Dos   +7 more
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Simulators for the Lunar Mission

The Journal of the Royal Aeronautical Society, 1967
This is the Age of Space Flight. Satellites orbiting the earth are the heralds of more spectacular demonstrations to come. “Man in earth orbit” is the prologue to manned missions in the alien environment of lunar space.Basically, the objectives of the US space programme are to:1.Expand human knowledge of atmosphere and space.2.Improve the use, speed ...
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Characterization of lunar dust and a synopsis of available lunar simulants

Planetary and Space Science, 2011
Abstract Understanding the formation and evolution of the soil and dust of the Moon addresses the fundamental question of the interactions of space with the surface of an airless body.
Yang Liu, Lawrence A. Taylor
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PHOSPHORUS ADSORPTION AND DESORPTION PROPERTIES OF MINNESOTA BASALT LUNAR SIMULANT AND LUNAR GLASS SIMULANT

Soil Science, 1996
Phosphorus (P) adsorption and desorption characteristics of Minnesota Basalt Lunar Simulant (MBLS) and Lunar Glass Simulant (LGS) were evaluated. Results of P interactions with lunar simulants indicated that mineral and glass components adsorbed between 50 and 70% of the applied P and that between ...
Brad Sutter, Lloyd R. Hossner, Douglas W. Ming   +2 more
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Simulations of the lunar sodium atmosphere

Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets, 1995
A new Monte Carlo type model of the lunar sodium atmosphere has been developed and applied to recent ground‐based imaging observations. The model assumes a steady state atmosphere with production of sodium due to a spatially uniform source (e.g., meteor impact vaporization) or a solar zenith angle dependent source (e.g., solar wind sputtering or ...
B. Flynn, M. Mendillo
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Lunar Soil Simulants- An Assessment

2019 9th International Conference on Recent Advances in Space Technologies (RAST), 2019
In this study an assessment is done about lunar soil simulants. It is found that until now more than 40 simulants are produced in 9 countries. This procedure is a still ongoing one, after its start in the year 1990. The list of the simulants produced given in the paper is the most comprehensive one and it includes not only all of the types given in ...
Toklu, Yusuf Cengiz, Akpinar, Pinar
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CELSS Simulations for a Lunar Outpost

SAE Technical Paper Series, 1990
<div class="htmlview paragraph">The Controlled Ecological Life Support System (CELSS) Emulator is operational for computer simulations of integrated CELSS operations involving humans, plants, process machinery, and reservoirs while the development of new capabilities continues. The Version 2.0 of the CELSS Emulator has been implemented to specify
H. S. Cullingford, W. P. Bennett, W. A. Holley, J. G. Carnes, P. S. Jones   +4 more
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