Characterisation of potential landing sites for the European Space Agency's Lunar Lander project

Planetary and Space Science

Volumn 74, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 224-246

  De Rosa, Diego ^a   Bussey, Ben ^b   Cahill, Joshua T ^b   Lutz, Tobias ^c   Crawford, Ian A ^d   Hackwill, Terence ^d   Van Gasselt, Stephan ^e   Neukum, Gerhard ^e   Witte, Lars ^f   McGovern, Andy ^b   Grindrod, Peter M ^g   Carpenter, James D ^a  

^a EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY   (Netherlands)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY APPLIED PHYSICS LABORATORY   (United States)

^c AIRBUS DEFENCE AND SPACE   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^e FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^f GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

^g UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Boulder size frequency distributions; Crater size frequency distributions; Illumination conditions; Landing hazards; Landing site characterisation; Lunar Orbiter Laser Altimeter; Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera; Lunar South Pole

Indexed keywords

ILLUMINATION CONDITIONS; LANDING SITE; LASER ALTIMETER; LUNAR RECONNAISSANCE ORBITERS; LUNAR SOUTH POLE; SIZE-FREQUENCY DISTRIBUTIONS;

ANEROID ALTIMETERS; CAMERAS; HAZARDS; LANDING; LASERS; LUNAR MISSIONS; RADIO ALTIMETERS; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS;

LUNAR LANDING;

EID: 84870828166     PISSN: 00320633     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pss.2012.08.002     Document Type: Conference Paper

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