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Surface Examination of the LCROSS impact site, Would direct examination be productive scientifically?
pilotpirx
post Feb 6 2010, 03:37 PM
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As a follow on to the LCROSS impact mission, I propose a near-term (<1000 days from today to launch) lunar landing mission be dispatched to examine the impact site for distribution of volatiles in the impact crater and at nearby locations. The instrumentation should be modest, based on established rover designs, use RTGs and have trenching and volatile analysis capatility. Near real-time control capability would be possible. Perhaps a stripped down version of Mars Surface Laboratory could be considered.
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- pilotpirx   Surface Examination of the LCROSS impact site   Feb 6 2010, 03:37 PM
- - ElkGroveDan   It's all about costs and tradeoffs. The missi...   Feb 6 2010, 04:28 PM
|- - pilotpirx   Thanks, you've made great points about cost an...   Feb 6 2010, 05:03 PM
- - Phil Stooke   The mission you describe would appear to be simila...   Feb 6 2010, 06:54 PM
|- - pilotpirx   Thank you for the information on future projects i...   Feb 6 2010, 08:09 PM
- - Phil Stooke   Being in permanent shadow is not an advantage for ...   Feb 6 2010, 08:41 PM
- - pilotpirx   I'll try to dig up some charts of solar insola...   Feb 6 2010, 09:20 PM

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