Scientific objectives and payload configuration of the Chang'E-7 mission

C Wang, Y Jia, C Xue, Y Lin, J Liu, X Fu… - National Science …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
As the cornerstone mission of the fourth phase of the Chinese Lunar Exploration Program,
Chang'E-7 (CE-7) was officially approved, and implementation started in 2022, including a …

Scientific perspectives on lunar exploration in Europe

J Flahaut, CH van der Bogert, IA Crawford… - npj …, 2023 - nature.com
The Moon is a geological history book, preserving information about the history of the Solar
System, including the formation and early evolution of the terrestrial planets and their …

ShadowCam instrument and investigation overview

MS Robinson, SM Brylow, MA Caplinger… - Journal of Astronomy …, 2023 - koreascience.kr
Abstract ShadowCam is a National Aeronautics and Space Administration Advanced
Exploration Systems funded instrument hosted onboard the Korea Aerospace Research …

Exploring the lunar water cycle

P Reiss - Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2024 - pnas.org
The presence of water on the Moon has been indicated by various remote-sensing
observations and analyses of returned samples. Several missions are planned to conduct …

Buried ice deposits in lunar polar cold traps were disrupted by ballistic sedimentation

CJ Tai Udovicic, KR Frizzell… - Journal of …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
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 …

Regional map of molecular water at high southern latitudes on the Moon using 6 μm data from the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy

CI Honniball, PG Lucey, A Arredondo… - Geophysical …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
A map of surface molecular water was derived from long slit spectroscopy of the south polar
region of the Moon using the Faint Object infraRed CAmera for the SOFIA Telescope …

Hydrogen-bearing vesicles in space weathered lunar calcium-phosphates

KD Burgess, BA Cymes, RM Stroud - Communications Earth & …, 2023 - nature.com
Water on the surface of the Moon is a potentially vital resource for future lunar bases and
longer-range space exploration. Effective use of the resource depends on developing an …

Improved Orthorectification and Empirical Reduction of Topographic Effects in Monostatic Mini-RF S-band Observations of the Moon

CI Fassett, AM Bramson, JTS Cahill… - The Planetary …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract The Miniature Radio Frequency instrument (Mini-RF) on the Lunar Reconnaissance
Orbiter obtained widespread synthetic aperture radar observations of the Moon in the S …

[HTML][HTML] Variations in surface adsorbed H2O on lunar soils and relevant minerals

KA Wilk, JF Mustard, RE Milliken, CM Pieters - Icarus, 2024 - Elsevier
Spectral variations due to the removal of surface adsorbed H 2 O at 3 and 6 μm in
reflectance spectra on lunar soils and relevant minerals (olivine, pyroxene, and plagioclase) …

LRO‐LAMP Survey of Lunar South Pole Cold Traps: Implication for the Presence of Condensed H2O

LO Magaña, KD Retherford, BD Byron… - Journal of …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
We employ nighttime observations from the Lyman Alpha Mapping Project (LAMP)
ultraviolet (UV) spectrograph onboard the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter to investigate the …