The Distribution and Accessibility of Geologic Targets near the Lunar South Pole and Candidate Artemis Landing Sites ...
Transformative lunar science will be driven by the accessibility, recovery, and return to Earth of geological specimens. Isolated boulders, rock exposures, and rocky craters at the lunar south pole all provide opportunities for geologic characterization and sampling of the lunar crust. Here, we pres...
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ftdatacite:10.3929/ethz-b-000596672 2024-04-28T08:38:44+00:00 The Distribution and Accessibility of Geologic Targets near the Lunar South Pole and Candidate Artemis Landing Sites ... Boazman, Sarah. J. Shah, Jahnavi Harish Gawronska, Aleksandra J. Halim, Samuel H. Satyakumar, Animireddi V. Gilmour, Cosette M. Bickel, Valentin Barrett, Natasha Kring, David A. 2022 application/pdf https://dx.doi.org/10.3929/ethz-b-000596672 http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11850/596672 en eng ETH Zurich article-journal Text ScholarlyArticle Journal Article 2022 ftdatacite https://doi.org/10.3929/ethz-b-000596672 2024-04-02T12:32:08Z Transformative lunar science will be driven by the accessibility, recovery, and return to Earth of geological specimens. Isolated boulders, rock exposures, and rocky craters at the lunar south pole all provide opportunities for geologic characterization and sampling of the lunar crust. Here, we present the results of orbital geological mapping of the region surrounding the south pole using Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Narrow Angle Camera images (0.5–2 m pixel−1). We mapped the distribution of isolated boulders (86,896), rocky craters (3556), and rock exposures (7553) around potential Artemis landing sites 001 and 004 (NASA 2020), which are within or near one of the Artemis III candidate landing regions. We found that boulder abundance decreases with increasing distance from the rim of Shackleton crater. From that correlation, we infer that most of the boulders and rock exposures near Shackleton were deposited as ejecta by the Shackleton impact, and by later the reworking of that material during smaller ... : The Planetary Science Journal, 3 (12) ... Article in Journal/Newspaper South pole DataCite Metadata Store (German National Library of Science and Technology) |
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Transformative lunar science will be driven by the accessibility, recovery, and return to Earth of geological specimens. Isolated boulders, rock exposures, and rocky craters at the lunar south pole all provide opportunities for geologic characterization and sampling of the lunar crust. Here, we present the results of orbital geological mapping of the region surrounding the south pole using Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Narrow Angle Camera images (0.5–2 m pixel−1). We mapped the distribution of isolated boulders (86,896), rocky craters (3556), and rock exposures (7553) around potential Artemis landing sites 001 and 004 (NASA 2020), which are within or near one of the Artemis III candidate landing regions. We found that boulder abundance decreases with increasing distance from the rim of Shackleton crater. From that correlation, we infer that most of the boulders and rock exposures near Shackleton were deposited as ejecta by the Shackleton impact, and by later the reworking of that material during smaller ... : The Planetary Science Journal, 3 (12) ... |
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Boazman, Sarah. J. Shah, Jahnavi Harish Gawronska, Aleksandra J. Halim, Samuel H. Satyakumar, Animireddi V. Gilmour, Cosette M. Bickel, Valentin Barrett, Natasha Kring, David A. |
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Boazman, Sarah. J. Shah, Jahnavi Harish Gawronska, Aleksandra J. Halim, Samuel H. Satyakumar, Animireddi V. Gilmour, Cosette M. Bickel, Valentin Barrett, Natasha Kring, David A. The Distribution and Accessibility of Geologic Targets near the Lunar South Pole and Candidate Artemis Landing Sites ... |
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Boazman, Sarah. J. Shah, Jahnavi Harish Gawronska, Aleksandra J. Halim, Samuel H. Satyakumar, Animireddi V. Gilmour, Cosette M. Bickel, Valentin Barrett, Natasha Kring, David A. |
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The Distribution and Accessibility of Geologic Targets near the Lunar South Pole and Candidate Artemis Landing Sites ... |
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The Distribution and Accessibility of Geologic Targets near the Lunar South Pole and Candidate Artemis Landing Sites ... |
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The Distribution and Accessibility of Geologic Targets near the Lunar South Pole and Candidate Artemis Landing Sites ... |
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The Distribution and Accessibility of Geologic Targets near the Lunar South Pole and Candidate Artemis Landing Sites ... |
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The Distribution and Accessibility of Geologic Targets near the Lunar South Pole and Candidate Artemis Landing Sites ... |
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distribution and accessibility of geologic targets near the lunar south pole and candidate artemis landing sites ... |
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