Design and experimentation of a Rover Concept for Lunar Crater Resource Survey

47th AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting including the New Horizons Forum and Aerospace Exposition

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Wettergreen, David ^a   Jonak, Dominic ^a   Kohanbash, David ^a   Moreland, Scott ^a   Spiker, Spencer ^a   Teza, James ^a   Whittaker, William ^a  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DRILLS; INFILL DRILLING; INSTRUMENT TESTING; LUNAR MISSIONS; ROBOTS; SOILS; SURVEYS;

INTEGRATED SYSTEMS; LASER SCANNER; MAUNA KEAS; POLAR CRATERS; SOIL ANALYSIS; STEEP SLOPE; THERMAL REGULATION; WATER ICE;

SOIL TESTING;

EID: 78549268465     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2514/6.2009-1206     Document Type: Conference Paper

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