Lunar Polar Volatiles: Permanently shadowed craters at the lunar poles contain water, 5 wt according to LCROSS. Interest in water for ISRU applications. Desire to ground truth water using surface prospecting e.g. Resource Prospector and RESOLVE. How to access subsurface water resources and accurately measure quantity. Excavation operations and exposure to lunar environment may affect the results. Volatile capture tests: A series a ground based dirty thermal vacuum tests are being conducted to better understand the subsurface sampling operations. Sample removal and transfer. Volatiles loss during sampling operations. Concept of operations, Instrumentation. This presentation is a progress report on volatiles capture results from these tests with lunar polar drill prototype hardware.


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    Title :

    Regolith Volatile Recovery at Simulated Lunar Environments


    Contributors:

    Conference:

    AIAA SciTech Forum and Exposition ; 2016 ; San Diego, CA, United States


    Publication date :

    2016-01-04


    Type of media :

    Miscellaneous


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English




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