Farside explorer: unique science from a mission to the farside of the moon

• Published in: Experimental Astronomy
• Main Authors: Mimoun, David, Wieczorek, Mark A., Alkalai, Leon, Banerdt, W. Bruce, Baratoux, David, Bougeret, Jean-Louis, Bouley, Sylvain, Cecconi, Baptiste, Falcke, Heino, Flohrer, Joachim, Garcia, Raphael F., Grimm, Robert, Grott, Matthias, Gurvits, Leonid, Jaumann, Ralf, Johnson, Catherine L., Knapmeyer, Martin, Kobayashi, Naoki, Konovalenko, Alexander, Lawrence, David, Feuvre, Mathieu Le, Lognonné, Philippe, Neal, Clive, Oberst, Jürgen, Olsen, Nils, Röttgering, Huub, Spohn, Tilman, Vennerstrom, Susanne, Woan, Graham, Zarka, Philippe
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Springer Verlag 2012
• Subjects: Aitken; Lagrange; South Pole; South pole
• Online Access: https://eprints.gla.ac.uk/93941/; https://eprints.gla.ac.uk/93941/1/93941.pdf; https://eprints.gla.ac.uk/93941/2/93941%20cover.pdf; https://doi.org/10.1007/s10686-011-9252-3

Farside Explorer is a proposed Cosmic Vision medium-size mission to the farside of the Moon consisting of two landers and an instrumented relay satellite. The farside of the Moon is a unique scientific platform in that it is shielded from terrestrial radio-frequency interference, it recorded the pri...