In the past few years, several major space missions have been completed (eg, Deep Impact,
LCROSS, Chandrayaan-1, Stardust, Hayabusa), and a number of spacecraft are currently …

Several space organizations have been planning to establish a permanent, manned base
on the Moon in recent years. Such an installation demands a highly reliable electrical power …

Abstract The Earth-Moon system is constantly bombarded by meteoroids of different size
and impact speed. Observation of the impacts on the Moon can enable thorough …

We present here the new INPOP lunar ephemeris, INPOP17a. This ephemeris is obtained
through the numerical integration of the equations of motion and of rotation of the Moon …

We assessed the morphologies of more than 930 simple impact craters (diameters 40 m–10
km) on the Moon using digital terrain models (DTMs) of a variety of terrains in order to …

Analyzing the density of impact craters on planetary surfaces is the only known technique for
learning their ages remotely. As a result, crater statistics have been widely analyzed on the …

The flashes from meteoroid impacts on the Moon are useful in determining the flux of
impactors with masses as low as a few tens of grams. A routine monitoring program at …

Abstract The Lunar Meteoroid Impacts Observer (LUMIO) is a CubeSat mission to observe,
quantify, and characterize the meteoroid impacts on the lunar farside by detecting their …

Impact investigations will be an important aspect of the InSight mission. One of the scientific
goals of the mission is a measurement of the current impact rate at Mars. Impacts will …

The Lunar Gravitational-wave Antenna (LGWA) is a proposed array of next-generation
inertial sensors to monitor the response of the Moon to gravitational waves (GWs). Given the …