The Lunar Mapping and Modeling Project

2019

AIAA SPACE 2011 Conference & Exposition, 2011

The lunar scientific community is currently exploring and planning a new vision of scientific experimentation and exploration using the lunar surface as a platform for scientific investigations that include Earth observations, lunar science, Solar System studies, and the Universe that are uniquely enabled on the lunar surface. This lunar exploration science begins with robotic precursor missions, eventually followed by human missions to the lunar surface. The concept of a central lunar operations facility can be envisioned to support the challenge of coordinating lunar operations and science across a myriad of participating institutions. A Center for Lunar Exploration Operations (CLEO) could be implemented at a facility such as the Mission Control Center at NASA's Johnson Space Center where significant infrastructure is readily available. exploration of the Moon possible. The ISECG Reference Architecture is a phased approach to lunar exploration that provides continuous robotic and human exploration activity in multiple locations across the lunar surface. The phases include the following: (i) robotic precursor phase, (ii) polar exploration and system validation phase, (iii) polar relocation phase (robotic relocation from poles to lower lunar latitudes), and (iv) non-polar relocation and long duration phase (~70 days at one site). Additional information of the Reference Architecture for Human Lunar Exploration can be found at http://www.globalspaceexploration.org.

1 st Space …, 2005

A novel ASI Lunar mission is here proposed by a task force of Ph.D. students. After 14 th January 2004 president G.W Bush's speech, a new input to space human exploration has been given. The Moon, thanks to nearness to Earth, is identified as an important test bed for all future human missions. The task force LUME mission has been designed to fit with Italian technological capabilities leaving it open anyway for international cooperation. Three main module are foreseen: a lunar low altitude polar orbiter, a lander near the "peak of the eternal light" and a rover. The polar orbiter is equipped with a complete suite of experiments for remote sensing observation (high resolution color camera, VIS-NIR imaging spectrometer, neutron and X spectrometers and SAR radar). This will provide a lunar surface map in high spatial resolution at different wavelengths: the orbiter payload will be used both to refine the selection of the landing site and to support the rover navigation. The lander will reach the region of "peak of the eternal light", located in the South Pole-Aitken

2009

Experimental Astronomy

Geophysical observations will provide key information about the inner structure of the planets and satellites and understanding the internal structure is a strong constraint on the bulk composition and thermal evolution of these bodies. Thus, geophysical observations are a key to uncovering the origin and evolution of the Moon. In this article, we propose the development of an autonomous lunar geophysical experiment package, composed of a suite of instruments and a central station with standardized interface, which can be installed on various future lunar missions. By fixing the interface between instruments and the central station, it would be possible to easily configure an appropriate experiment package for different missions. We describe here a series of geophysical instruments that may be included as part of the geophysical package: a seismometer, a magnetometer, a heat flow probe, and a laser reflector. These instruments will provide mechanical, thermal, and geodetic parameter...

Advances in Space Research, 2008

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AIAA SPACE 2011 Conference & Exposition, 2011

The European Lunar Lander mission, targeted for launch in 2018 and a landing near the Moon's South Pole, shall demonstrate critical technologies associated with planetary landing and shall prove Europe's ability to land safely and precisely. The mission will also provide an opportunity to conduct experiments and investigations on the Lunar surface of relevance for future human exploration. The mission design avoids the use of radio-isotope devices, instead exploiting potential favourable locations near the Lunar South Pole which offer near-continuous solar illumination for several months at a time. However targeting such favourable locations imposes important challenges on the precision of the landing and on the necessary hazard avoidance capability. The mission is currently in Phase B1 which shall run up to mid 2012 and which includes both mission and system definition and design, as well as an important element of hardware breadboarding and testing. An important intermediate milestone is the Polar Landing Review in early 2011 at which the system design was reviewed and compared against the latest available surface topographic information, currently being acquired by NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter. This paper provides an overview of the mission, its objectives, key technical challenges and the baseline configuration arising from the Polar Landing Review. It also provides a description of the ongoing and planned technology activities carried out as part of the Phase B1 and other relevant ESA activities.

Space Science Reviews, 2010

The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) was implemented to facilitate scientific and engineering-driven mapping of the lunar surface at new spatial scales and with new remote sensing methods, identify safe landing sites, search for in situ resources, and measure the space radiation environment. After its successful launch on June 18, 2009, the LRO spacecraft and instruments were activated and calibrated in an eccentric polar lunar orbit until September 15, when LRO was moved to a circular polar orbit with a mean altitude of 50 km. LRO will operate for at least one year to support the goals of NASA's Exploration Systems Mission Directorate (ESMD), and for at least two years of extended operations for additional lunar science measurements supported by NASA's Science Mission Directorate (SMD). LRO carries six instruments with associated science and exploration investigations, and a telecommunications/radar technology demonstration. The LRO instruments are: Cosmic Ray Telescope for the Effects of Radiation (CRaTER), Diviner Lunar Radiometer Experiment (DLRE), Lyman-Alpha Mapping Project (LAMP), Lunar Exploration Neutron Detector (LEND), Lunar Orbiter Laser Altimeter (LOLA), and Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera (LROC). The technology demonstration is a compact, dual-frequency, hybrid polarity synthetic aperture radar instrument (Mini-RF). LRO observations also support the Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS), the lunar impact mission that was comanifested with LRO on the Atlas V (401) launch vehicle. This paper describes the LRO objectives and measurements that support exploration of the Moon and that address the science objectives outlined by the National Academy of Science's report on the Scientific Context for Exploration of the Moon (SCEM). We also describe data accessibility by the science and exploration community.

2008 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2008

Las velas japonesas nos ayudan a identificar posibles tendencias en el precio de un activo. En las siguientes diapositivas, el socio de Invertir Mejor dispone de algunos de los patrones que en mayores ocasiones se presentan en los mercados de acciones y divisas. En la parte inferior de cada diapositiva se observa el nombre de cada secuencia y la tendencia esperada (rojo si el precio tiende a la baja y verde si el precio tiende al alza)