LRO Press Release and Press Conference |
LRO Press Release and Press Conference |
Sep 18 2009, 01:06 AM
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Newbie Group: Members Posts: 6 Joined: 17-September 09 Member No.: 4945 |
Here is a video of the press conference today (9/17/2009):
http://www.youtube.com/profile?v=59aaOW33a...=NASAtelevision And here is a link to the press release: http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2009/sep/H...irst_Light.html A link to the fascinating results for the south polar region from the instrument I work on, Diviner: http://www.diviner.ucla.edu/blog/?p=123 Within the permanently shadowed regions near the lunar poles, Diviner has recorded the what could be the coldest natural temperatures in the Solar System. Further mapping by LRO, along with the results from LCROSS, may reveal important volatiles like water and possibly organic molecules are trapped in these frigid confines. PH |
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Sep 22 2009, 11:21 PM
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Junior Member Group: Members Posts: 21 Joined: 17-August 06 Member No.: 1048 |
I overlooked the LEND graphic. If I'm interpreting it correctly, out of the craters on my list, Idel'son L looks doubtful for ice. Faustini looks really promising. The crater near it at around 100 is probably a good prospect too. There's some hope for Shoemaker and Shackleton. The crater on the edge of Nobile looks good, and Nobile itself looks good.
Craters not in my list that now look interesting include Amundsen, Haworth, De Gerlache, Cabeus, and Cabeus A. Although, I noticed that in the Nature article the LRO radar instrument didn't find any strong ice-like signal from Cabeus A, which might lead to a target change. I'm going to add Erlanger and Fibiger to my list in the north. On August 20, Erlanger was supposed to be a target of a bistatic experiment using Mini-RF on LRO and Mini-SAR on Chandrayaan-1. It's fortunate that Chandrayaan-1 didn't fail until after that. I haven't seen anything about the results of that experiment. I don't see any LEND image for the north pole, unfortunately. There are a lot of interesting areas. I'll have to wait for more information before speculating any further. |
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