Abstract Chang’E-3 (CE-3) was the third mission by China to explore the Moon which had landed two spacecraft, the CE-3 lander and Yutu rover on the lunar surface in late 2013. The paper presents analytical results of high-resolution terrain data taken by CE-3’s onboard cameras. The image data processing aims to extract sinkage profiles of the wheel tracks during the rover traverse. Further analysis leads to derivation or estimation of lunar soil physical properties (in terms of strength and stiffness) based on the wheel sinkage, despite the fact Yutu does not possess in situ soil measurement instruments. Our findings indicate that the lunar soil at the CE-3 landing site has similar stiffness to what is measured at the Luna 17 landing site but has much less strength compared to the Apollo 15 landing site.


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    Titel :

    Lunar soil strength estimation based on Chang’E-3 images


    Beteiligte:
    Gao, Yang (Autor:in) / Spiteri, Conrad (Autor:in) / Li, Chun-Lai (Autor:in) / Zheng, Yong-Chun (Autor:in)

    Erschienen in:

    Advances in Space Research ; 58 , 9 ; 1893-1899


    Erscheinungsdatum :

    2016-07-11


    Format / Umfang :

    7 pages




    Medientyp :

    Aufsatz (Zeitschrift)


    Format :

    Elektronische Ressource


    Sprache :

    Englisch





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