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SMART-1 technology, scientific results and heritage for future space missions
Grande, M.; Koschny, D.; Grieger, B. +8 more
ESA's SMART-1 mission to the Moon achieved record firsts such as: 1) first Small Mission for Advanced Research and Technology; with spacecraft built and integrated in 2.5 years and launched 3.5 years after mission approval; 2) first mission leaving the Earth orbit using solar power alone; 3) most fuel effective mission (60 L of Xenon) and longest …
Compositional and chronological characterization of mare crisium using Chandrayaan-1 and LROC-WAC data
Karthi, A.; Arivazhagan, S.
The surface of the Moon has been observed by human being since time immemorial and it appears distinctly different from that of the earth. Moon is geologically inactive for quite long time and therefore it's an ideal place to study the early solar system history. The lunar surface is dominated by various morphological features such as craters, ril…
Characterizing dark mantle deposits in the lunar crater Alphonsus
Videen, G.; Ivanov, M. A.; Shkuratov, Y. G. +6 more
We analyze available remote-sensing data of the crater Alphonsus, focusing on the analysis of the crater's dark mantle deposits (DMDs), which includes images from NASA Clementine and Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), Japanese Selene (Kaguya), and Indian Chandrayaan-1 missions. The Alphonsus DMDs are gentle-sloped flat hills with typical heights …