MoonRise is a New Frontiers mission concept to land in the South Pole-Aitken (SPA) basin, collect samples, and return the samples to Earth for detailed mineral, chemical, petrologic, geochronologic, and physical properties analyses to address science questions relevant to the early evolution of the Solar System and the Moon. Science associated with this mission concept is described elsewhere; here we discuss selection of sites within SPA to address science objectives using recent scientific studies (orbital spectroscopy, gravity, topography), and the use of new data (LRO) to certify safe landing sites for a robotic sample return mission such as MoonRise.
Selecting and Certifying a Landing Site for Moonrise in South Pole-Aitken Basin
Lunar and Planetary Science Conference ; 2017 ; The Woodlands, TX, United States
2017-03-20
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Trajectory Design for MoonRise: A Proposed Lunar South Pole Aitken Basin Sample Return Mission
Online Contents | 2015
|Trajectory Design for MoonRise: A Proposed Lunar South Pole Aitken Basin Sample Return Mission
Online Contents | 2015
|Trajectory Design for MoonRise: A Proposed Lunar South Pole Aitken Basin Sample Return Mission
Springer Verlag | 2015
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