Candidate landing sites and possible traverses at the south pole of the Moon for the LUVMI-X rover
Lunar volatiles, such as water, are a crucial resource for future exploration, and their exploitation should enable the use of the Moon as a platform for even more remote destinations. As water is most likely to be found in the form of ice at the lunar poles (where surface temperatures can be as low...
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ftopenunivgb:oai:oro.open.ac.uk:87053 2023-06-11T04:16:46+02:00 Candidate landing sites and possible traverses at the south pole of the Moon for the LUVMI-X rover Jouland, Marine Flahaut, Jessica Urbina, Diego Madakashira, Hermanth Ito, Gen Biswas, Janos Sheridan, Simon Gancet, Jeremi 2021 application/pdf https://oro.open.ac.uk/87053/ https://oro.open.ac.uk/87053/1/87053.pdf https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu21-11678 unknown https://oro.open.ac.uk/87053/1/87053.pdf Jouland, Marine; Flahaut, Jessica; Urbina, Diego; Madakashira, Hermanth; Ito, Gen; Biswas, Janos; Sheridan, Simon <http://oro.open.ac.uk/view/person/ss27739.html> and Gancet, Jeremi (2021). Candidate landing sites and possible traverses at the south pole of the Moon for the LUVMI-X rover. In: vEGU21, the 23rd EGU General Assembly, 19-30 Apr 2021, Online. Conference or Workshop Item Public PeerReviewed 2021 ftopenunivgb https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu21-11678 2023-05-28T06:08:30Z Lunar volatiles, such as water, are a crucial resource for future exploration, and their exploitation should enable the use of the Moon as a platform for even more remote destinations. As water is most likely to be found in the form of ice at the lunar poles (where surface temperatures can be as low as 40K, i.e. below the H2O temperature of sublimation in vacuum, 110K), multiple upcoming missions target the south pole (SP) cold traps. PSRs (Permanently Shadowed Regions) are especially cold enough to capture and retain volatiles but present challenging access conditions (rough topography, low illumination, low temperatures, limited Earth visibility).Funded by the EU program Horizon 2020, Space Applications Services developed the LUVMI-X rover (LUnar Volatiles Mobile Instrument eXtended), aimed at sampling and analysing lunar volatiles in the polar regions, including within a PSR. The LUVMI-X nominal payload includes an instrumented drill, the Volatiles Sampler (VS), along with a mass spectrometer, the Volatiles Analyser (VA), for surface and subsurface volatile detection and characterisation. A LIBS and a radiation detector are also included. Deployable and propellable surface science payloads are in development for inaccessible sites (e.g., some of the PSRs). This solar-powered rover has an autonomy of one or two Earth nights and can drill down to 20cm in the lunar regolith. The goal of this paper is to find suitable landing sites & traverses" paths for this rover project, that are both scientifically interesting and technically reachable.Available remote sensing imagery for the lunar SP was downloaded from the PDS or corresponding instruments" websites and added into a Geographic Information System (GIS). LUVMI-X scientific objectives and technical specifications were then translated into a list of criteria and computed in our GIS using reclassifications, buffers, and intersections. Using our GIS, reclassified data were overlaid with different weights to define and rank areas meeting the compulsory ... Conference Object South pole The Open University: Open Research Online (ORO) South Pole |
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Lunar volatiles, such as water, are a crucial resource for future exploration, and their exploitation should enable the use of the Moon as a platform for even more remote destinations. As water is most likely to be found in the form of ice at the lunar poles (where surface temperatures can be as low as 40K, i.e. below the H2O temperature of sublimation in vacuum, 110K), multiple upcoming missions target the south pole (SP) cold traps. PSRs (Permanently Shadowed Regions) are especially cold enough to capture and retain volatiles but present challenging access conditions (rough topography, low illumination, low temperatures, limited Earth visibility).Funded by the EU program Horizon 2020, Space Applications Services developed the LUVMI-X rover (LUnar Volatiles Mobile Instrument eXtended), aimed at sampling and analysing lunar volatiles in the polar regions, including within a PSR. The LUVMI-X nominal payload includes an instrumented drill, the Volatiles Sampler (VS), along with a mass spectrometer, the Volatiles Analyser (VA), for surface and subsurface volatile detection and characterisation. A LIBS and a radiation detector are also included. Deployable and propellable surface science payloads are in development for inaccessible sites (e.g., some of the PSRs). This solar-powered rover has an autonomy of one or two Earth nights and can drill down to 20cm in the lunar regolith. The goal of this paper is to find suitable landing sites & traverses" paths for this rover project, that are both scientifically interesting and technically reachable.Available remote sensing imagery for the lunar SP was downloaded from the PDS or corresponding instruments" websites and added into a Geographic Information System (GIS). LUVMI-X scientific objectives and technical specifications were then translated into a list of criteria and computed in our GIS using reclassifications, buffers, and intersections. Using our GIS, reclassified data were overlaid with different weights to define and rank areas meeting the compulsory ... |
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Candidate landing sites and possible traverses at the south pole of the Moon for the LUVMI-X rover |
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Candidate landing sites and possible traverses at the south pole of the Moon for the LUVMI-X rover |
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Candidate landing sites and possible traverses at the south pole of the Moon for the LUVMI-X rover |
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https://oro.open.ac.uk/87053/1/87053.pdf Jouland, Marine; Flahaut, Jessica; Urbina, Diego; Madakashira, Hermanth; Ito, Gen; Biswas, Janos; Sheridan, Simon <http://oro.open.ac.uk/view/person/ss27739.html> and Gancet, Jeremi (2021). Candidate landing sites and possible traverses at the south pole of the Moon for the LUVMI-X rover. In: vEGU21, the 23rd EGU General Assembly, 19-30 Apr 2021, Online. |
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