Assessment of robotic recon for human exploration of the Moon

Acta Astronautica

Volumn 67, Issue 9-10, 2010, Pages 1176-1188

  Fong, Terrence ^a   Abercromby, Andrew ^b   Bualat, Maria G ^a   Deans, Matthew C ^a   Hodges, Kip V ^c   Hurtado Jr , José M ^d   Landis, Rob ^a   Lee, Pascal ^e   Schreckenghost, Debra ^f  

^a NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b WYLE LABORATORIES   (United States)

^c ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT EL PASO   (United States)

^e Mars Institute   (United States)

^f TRACLabs   (United States)

Author keywords

Planetary rovers; Robotic exploration; Scouting

Indexed keywords

ARIZONA; EXTRAVEHICULAR ACTIVITY; FIELD EXPERIMENT; GROUND CONTROL; HUMAN EXPLORATION; LAVA FLOWS; LUNAR SURFACE; OPERATIONAL RISKS; PLANETARY ROVERS; ROBOTIC EXPLORATION; SCOUTING; TELEOPERATED;

LUNAR MISSIONS; MANNED SPACE FLIGHT; NASA; PLANETARY LANDERS; ROBOTICS; ROBOTS; ROCK MECHANICS;

EXPERIMENTS;

EID: 77956058330     PISSN: 00945765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.actaastro.2010.06.029     Document Type: Article

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