In the past few years, several major space missions have been completed (eg, Deep Impact,
LCROSS, Chandrayaan-1, Stardust, Hayabusa), and a number of spacecraft are currently …

Several space organizations have been planning to establish a permanent, manned base
on the Moon in recent years. Such an installation demands a highly reliable electrical power …

Abstract The Earth-Moon system is constantly bombarded by meteoroids of different size
and impact speed. Observation of the impacts on the Moon can enable thorough …

We present here the new INPOP lunar ephemeris, INPOP17a. This ephemeris is obtained
through the numerical integration of the equations of motion and of rotation of the Moon …

We assessed the morphologies of more than 930 simple impact craters (diameters 40 m–10
km) on the Moon using digital terrain models (DTMs) of a variety of terrains in order to …

The flashes from meteoroid impacts on the Moon are useful in determining the flux of
impactors with masses as low as a few tens of grams. A routine monitoring program at …

Analyzing the density of impact craters on planetary surfaces is the only known technique for
learning their ages remotely. As a result, crater statistics have been widely analyzed on the …

Impact investigations will be an important aspect of the InSight mission. One of the scientific
goals of the mission is a measurement of the current impact rate at Mars. Impacts will …

Abstract The Lunar Meteoroid Impacts Observer (LUMIO) is a CubeSat mission to observe,
quantify, and characterize the meteoroid impacts on the lunar farside by detecting their …

The NASA Artemis program will send humans to the lunar south polar region, in part to
investigate the availability of water ice and other in situ resources. While trace amounts of …