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Mini-RF S-band Radar Characterization of a Lunar South Pole–crossing Tycho Ray: Implications for Sampling Strategies

The Planetary Science Journal
One of the youngest features on the Moon is Tycho, an 85 km diameter impact crater with a vast ray system that spans much of the lunar nearside. As such, it serves as an important stratigraphic marker for the Moon. One of Tycho’s longest rays crosses the
Edgard G. Rivera-Valentín, Caleb I. Fassett, Brett W. Denevi, Heather M. Meyer, Catherine D. Neish, Gareth A. Morgan, Joshua T. S. Cahill, Angela M. Stickle, G. Wesley Patterson   +8 more
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Characteristics of dust plasma environment at lunar south pole

Acta Physica Sinica
Unlike the Earth, the Moon lacks is not protected from the atmosphere and global magnetic field, and will be directly exposed to complex radiation environments such as high-energy cosmic rays, solar wind, and the Earth’s magnetotail plasma. The surface of the Moon is covered with a thick layer of lunar soil, and the particles in the soil with a ...
Meng-Yao Li, Qing Xia, Ming-Hui Cai, Tao Yang, Liang-Liang Xu, Xin-Yu Jia, Jian-Wei Han   +6 more
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The Relevance of the VIPER Mission to NASA’s Artemis Human Exploration of the Moon

The Planetary Science Journal
NASA has ambitious plans to send astronauts to the south polar region of the Moon and explore this lunar terrain with humans for the first time through a series of Artemis missions.
Jennifer L. Heldmann, Anthony Colaprete, Ariel N. Deutsch, Casey I. Honniball, Myriam Lemelin, Kimberly Ennico-Smith, Mark H. Shirley, Edward Balaban, Valentin T. Bickel, Terrence Fong, Matthew C. Deans, Eldar Z. Noe Dobrea, Darlene S. S. Lim, Zara Mirmalek, David Lees   +14 more
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Numerical simulation of light-element geochemistry of the lunar surface using a compact and lightweight XRF imaging spectrometer

Earth, Planets and Space
Understanding the evolution of the Moon requires mapping the global distribution and abundance of major elements on the lunar surface. X-ray fluorescence exploration is a promising method for estimating the distribution of light elements. The lunar south
Airi Toida, Daiki Ishi, Yuichiro Ezoe, Masaki Numazawa, Kumi Ishikawa   +4 more
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LROC NAC-derived Meter-scale Topography of the Moon’s South Polar Landing Sites: Digital Terrain Models and Their Quality Assessments

The Planetary Science Journal
High-quality digital terrain models (DTMs) are essential for lunar polar missions, aiding mission planning and surface operations. The horizontal resolution and vertical accuracy of DTMs are generally limited by factors such as source image resolution ...
Ryodo Hemmi, Hiroka Inoue, Hiroshi Kikuchi, Hiroyuki Sato, Hideaki Miyamoto, Hisashi Otake, Mitsuo Yamamoto   +6 more
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Probabilistic Meteoroid Hazard Analysis for Lunar South Pole Infrastructure Design

Aerospace
The lunar South Pole has emerged as a strategic target for future space exploration due to its potential to host valuable resources and its favorable illumination conditions.
Maria S. Palacios, Julian D. Calonge, Sandra Villamizar, Daniel Gomez, Antonio Bobet   +4 more
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Design and Development of Energy Particle Detector on China’s Chang’e-7

Aerospace
Particle radiation on the Moon is influenced by a combination of galactic cosmic rays, high-energy solar particles, and secondary particles interacting on the lunar surface.
Liping Wang, Guohong Shen, Huanxin Zhang, Donghui Hou, Shenyi Zhang, Xianguo Zhang, Zida Quan, Jiajie Liao, Wentao Ji, Ying Sun   +9 more
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Surface Roughness at the Moon’s South Pole: The Influence of Condensed Volatiles on Surface Roughness at the Moon’s South Pole

The Planetary Science Journal
Condensed volatiles within lunar permanently shadowed regions are of high scientific and resource utilization importance. Volatiles remain elusive and difficult to observe directly, due to low direct solar illumination.
Lizeth O. Magaña, Parvathy Prem, Ariel N. Deutsch, Anna C. Martin, Heather M. Meyer, Caleb I. Fassett, Michael K. Barker, Angela Stickle, Benjamin D. Byron, Kathleen E. Mandt, Kurt D. Retherford   +10 more
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Lunar South Pole Mission (LSPM) :

, 2003
This report is a summary of the group design project of the MSc in Astronautics and Space Engineering at Cranfield University for the year 1996/97. The project was a feasibility study of a European unmanned mission to the lunar south pole to carry out scientific study.
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Signal Compensation of Moon Mineralogy Mapper (M3) Under Low-Illumination Conditions Using a CycleGAN-Based Network

IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing
Lunar south polar regions have attracted considerable scientific interest due to their potential for preservation of water ice and unique mineralogical compositions.
Rui Ni, Fei Zhao, Tingyu Meng, Yanlei Du, Pingping Lu, Robert Wang   +5 more
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