Targets for LRO |
Targets for LRO |
Apr 6 2007, 09:41 PM
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You can imagine this to be a companion thread to the one requesting suggestions
for MRO targets on Mars. The LRO (Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter) is set to launch in a little over a year from now. There was to a be a site selection workshop in May 2007, next month, but I see now that it has been cancelled. Therefore, it appears that it is up to us, the UMSF Community to take up the baton and help NASA out. It was done for New Horizons at Jupiter and was very productive. So, what are the sites that you would like to see imaged at 0.5 meter resolution by LROC, LRO's High-Resolution camera? My first suggestion would be to re-photograph the Surveyor 1 landing site to compare it with the images obtained by Lunar Orbiter 3. My second suggestion would be to photograph the Surveyor 6 landing area. This should image S-6 itself, but even more interesting, it may capture images of Surveyor 4, which should be only a mile or so away. This would help to determine whatever happened to S-4, which abruptly stopped transmitting just short of touchdown. Another Phil |
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Jul 16 2009, 04:12 AM
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Speaking of radar, and in anticipation of the LCROSS impact, can someone briefly explain (or point me to an explanation of) how the Arecibo observatory has been able to map the poles of both the Moon and Mercury, finding water at the latter but not the former? Seems like it would have the same (impossible) tangential view that we do from earth. Or is its radar sufficiently robust to be able to penetrate the poles "from the sides" and obtain useful reflections that are processed tomographically?
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Jul 16 2009, 08:53 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 157 Joined: 22-May 09 From: Ireland Member No.: 4792 |
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