The OSIRIS-REx laser altimeter (OLA) investigation and instrument

MG Daly, OS Barnouin, C Dickinson, J Seabrook… - Space Science …, 2017 - Springer
Abstract The Canadian Space Agency (CSA) has contributed to the Origins Spectral
Interpretation Resource Identification Security-Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) spacecraft …

Candidate landing sites for the Emirates Lunar Mission (ELM) Rashid-1 rover

J Flahaut, SG Els, M Joulaud, C Wöhler, S Breton… - Space Science …, 2024 - Springer
Launched in December 2022 onboard the Hakuto-R lunar lander, the Mohammed Bin
Rashid Space Centre (MBRSC) Emirates Lunar Mission (ELM) Rashid-1 rover experienced …

A new global database of lunar impact craters> 1–2 km: 1. Crater locations and sizes, comparisons with published databases, and global analysis

SJ Robbins - Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
This paper presents a new, global database of lunar impact craters, estimated to be a
complete census of all craters with diameters larger than 1–2 km. The database contains …

Improved LOLA elevation maps for south pole landing sites: Error estimates and their impact on illumination conditions

MK Barker, E Mazarico, GA Neumann, DE Smith… - Planetary and Space …, 2021 - Elsevier
We present new high-resolution topographic models of 4 high-priority lunar south pole
landing sites based exclusively on the laser altimetry data acquired by the Lunar Orbiter …

High‐resolution gravity field models from GRAIL data and implications for models of the density structure of the Moon's crust

S Goossens, TJ Sabaka, MA Wieczorek… - Journal of …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
We present our latest high‐resolution lunar gravity field model of degree and order 1200 in
spherical harmonics using Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) data. In …

Illumination conditions at the lunar poles: Implications for future exploration

P Gläser, J Oberst, GA Neumann, E Mazarico… - Planetary and Space …, 2018 - Elsevier
We produced 400× 400 km Digital Terrain Models (DTMs) of the lunar poles from Lunar
Orbiter Laser Altimeter (LOLA) ranging measurements. To achieve consistent, high …

Regions of interest (ROI) for future exploration missions to the lunar South Pole

J Flahaut, J Carpenter, JP Williams, M Anand… - Planetary and Space …, 2020 - Elsevier
The last decades have been marked by increasing evidence for the presence of near-
surface volatiles at the lunar poles. Enhancement in hydrogen near both poles, UV and …

Lunar resources

IA Crawford, M Anand, S Barber… - … in Mineralogy and …, 2023 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
It has long been recognised (eg, Ehricke 1985; Spudis 1996, 2016; Duke et al. 2006;
Benaroya 2010; Kornuta et al. 2019) that the Moon has the potential to play a pivotal role in …

Evidence for a low bulk crustal density for Mars from gravity and topography

S Goossens, TJ Sabaka, A Genova… - Geophysical …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Knowledge of the average density of the crust of a planet is important in
determining its interior structure. The combination of high‐resolution gravity and topography …

Past extent of lunar permanently shadowed areas

N Schörghofer, R Rufu - Science Advances, 2023 - science.org
As the Moon migrated away from Earth, it experienced a major spin axis reorientation.
Permanently shadowed regions (PSRs), which are thought to have trapped ices and are a …