Artemis III EVA Opportunities on the Lunar Farside near Shackleton Crater
A summit between Shackleton and Slater craters has an average solar illumination of 83%. The point, site 007 of [1] and NASA's Plan for Sustainable Lunar Exploration and Development, is on the farside of the Moon, beyond the south pole as seen from Earth (Fig. 1 & 2). Solar power at such si...
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ftusrahouston:oai:repository.hou.usra.edu:20.500.11753/1718 2023-05-15T18:22:15+02:00 Artemis III EVA Opportunities on the Lunar Farside near Shackleton Crater Artemis 3 EVA Opportunities on the Lunar Farside near Shackleton Crater Kring, David A. (David Allen) Bretzelder, Jordan M. Ganesh, Indujaa Kumari, Nandita Lang, Antonio orcid:0000-0002-3440-6282 Moon 2020-09-08 2 pages application/pdf https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11753/1718 en eng LPI contribution no. 2565 https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11753/1718 Moon--Exploration Working Paper 2020 ftusrahouston https://doi.org/20.500.11753/1718 2022-07-30T17:31:12Z A summit between Shackleton and Slater craters has an average solar illumination of 83%. The point, site 007 of [1] and NASA's Plan for Sustainable Lunar Exploration and Development, is on the farside of the Moon, beyond the south pole as seen from Earth (Fig. 1 & 2). Solar power at such sites may provide an important lunar surface resource if a distribution system can be developed. Adjacent to that point of illumination is a modest-size permanently shadowed region (PSR) in which water was detected from orbit [2]. Thus, the PSR may harbor icy regolith deposits, another resource, that may provide crew consumables, radiation shielding, and propellant. Report South pole USRA Houston Repository (Universities Space Research Association) Shackleton South Pole |
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A summit between Shackleton and Slater craters has an average solar illumination of 83%. The point, site 007 of [1] and NASA's Plan for Sustainable Lunar Exploration and Development, is on the farside of the Moon, beyond the south pole as seen from Earth (Fig. 1 & 2). Solar power at such sites may provide an important lunar surface resource if a distribution system can be developed. Adjacent to that point of illumination is a modest-size permanently shadowed region (PSR) in which water was detected from orbit [2]. Thus, the PSR may harbor icy regolith deposits, another resource, that may provide crew consumables, radiation shielding, and propellant. |
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Kring, David A. (David Allen) Bretzelder, Jordan M. Ganesh, Indujaa Kumari, Nandita Lang, Antonio orcid:0000-0002-3440-6282 |
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Kring, David A. (David Allen) Bretzelder, Jordan M. Ganesh, Indujaa Kumari, Nandita Lang, Antonio orcid:0000-0002-3440-6282 |
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Artemis III EVA Opportunities on the Lunar Farside near Shackleton Crater |
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Artemis III EVA Opportunities on the Lunar Farside near Shackleton Crater |
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Artemis III EVA Opportunities on the Lunar Farside near Shackleton Crater |
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Artemis III EVA Opportunities on the Lunar Farside near Shackleton Crater |
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artemis iii eva opportunities on the lunar farside near shackleton crater |
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LPI contribution no. 2565 https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11753/1718 |
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