Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera Observations Relating to Science and Landing Site Selection in South Pole-Aitken Basin for a Robotic Sample Return Mission

• Main Authors: Petro, N. E., Clegg-Watkins, R. N., Lawrence, S. L., Jolliff, B. L.
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2016
• Subjects: Lunar and Planetary Science and Exploration; Aitken; South Pole; South pole
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/2060/20160012276

The Moon's South Pole-Aitken basin (SPA) is a high priority target for Solar System exploration, and sample return from SPA is a specific objective in NASA's New Frontiers program. Samples returned from SPA will improve our understanding of early lunar and Solar System events, mainly by pl...