Moon Images By SMART-1 Options

[akuo]

SMART-1 is approaching its operational orbit. ESA has released some images of the Moon on this page:

http://sci.esa.int/science-e/www/object/in...fobjectid=36358

[RNeuhaus]

Interesting ljk-4 article.

So, the Reiner Gamma Formation could be an interesting site for future human exploration because of the radiation deflected from the surface. Further testing of this hypothesis requires access to the physical properties of the surface to constrain the mechanisms of formation of the lunar swirls. This is an ongoing task for the AMIE camera, aimed at studying regolith photometric properties.

This will lead as a possiblity place to set up a moon base since that zone might have deflaction properties of solar radiation. What else can be explained of the bright spots of Moon surface since Moon has no aeolian force to clean the dirty surface and the only possibility is of the magnetic field. This means that the sun radiation is getting dirtier to moon surface....So this must be a interesting hypothesis and it is worth to be confirmed.

Rodolfo

[Bob Shaw]

Rodolfo:

I don't think there's any evidence for current deflection of debris or interference with radiation etc - what we see is a snapshot in time.

Bob Shaw

[RNeuhaus]

I don't think there's any evidence for current deflection of debris or interference with radiation etc - what we see is a snapshot in time.

I have enclosed an article from: http://www.universetoday.com/am/publish/re...irl.html?742006

So, it was suggested that the Reiner Gamma swirls correspond to magnetised materials in the crust or iron-rich ejecta materials able to deflect the solar wind (constant flow of charged particles coming from the Sun). This would prevent surface materials to undergo maturation processes, and so produce an optical anomaly.

So, the Reiner Gamma Formation could be an interesting site for future human exploration because of the radiation deflected from the surface. Further testing of this hypothesis requires access to the physical properties of the surface to constrain the mechanisms of formation of the lunar swirls. This is an ongoing task for the AMIE camera, aimed at studying regolith photometric properties.

However, this case is still an hypothesis, it might be of others factors such as :

Then, the magnetic anomaly would not be the result of an antipodal crustal field generated in the formation process of large impact basins. It would rather arise from local effects during the interaction between the lunar surface and cometary physical environment, with the possibility that the solar wind is locally deflected and contributes to the unusual optical properties.


Phil, do you think that these sites are worth to be explored by any surface robot? What kind of scientific instrument is needed to confirm that hypothesis? An magnetometer?

Rodolfo