P41A:
Future Lunar Exploration Enabled by Recent Mission Data and Science I Posters

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Session ID#: 26453

Session Description:
A vast science data set has been amassed from recent orbital missions, such as LRO and GRAIL, studying the lunar surface and environment. The Moon has numerous resources readily available that can enable and sustain the exploration of deep space, specifically; volatiles near the lunar poles, minerals that may be mined, and hydrogen and oxygen that could be extracted. The challenge is to use the available scientific data to evaluate these resources for in-situ resource utilization. We can also exploit the mission data archive and new science results to locate resources, identify nearby landing sites, and plan operations, taking into account surface properties at various scales. We solicit abstracts that use data or science results from recent lunar missions to enable or plan future lunar exploration These results might develop new techniques and tools to locate resources based on multiple data sets or maximize mission science return.
Primary Convener:  John W Keller, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States
Conveners:  Noah E Petro, NASA GSFC, Greenbelt, United States, Julie Stopar, Lunar and Planetary Institute, Houston, TX, United States and Samuel Lawrence, NASA Johnson Space Center, Astromaterials Research and Exploration Science, Houston, United States
Chairs:  Julie Stopar, Lunar and Planetary Institute, Houston, TX, United States, John W Keller, Code 691 SSED, Greenbelt, MD, United States and Samuel Lawrence, NASA Johnson Space Center, Astromaterials Research and Exploration Science, Houston, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Noah E Petro, NASA GSFC, Greenbelt, United States
Index Terms:

1914 Data mining [INFORMATICS]
5410 Composition [PLANETARY SCIENCES: SOLID SURFACE PLANETS]
5462 Polar regions [PLANETARY SCIENCES: SOLID SURFACE PLANETS]
5470 Surface materials and properties [PLANETARY SCIENCES: SOLID SURFACE PLANETS]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, a Planning Tool for Missions to the Moon (284327)
John W Keller, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Noah E Petro, NASA GSFC, Greenbelt, United States and Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Team
Using Proton Radiation from the Moon to Probe Regolith Hydrogenation in the Upper 1-10 cm (236702)
Nathan Schwadron1, Jody Keith Wilson2, Andrew Jordan3, Mark Dixon Looper4, Cary J Zeitlin5, Larry Townsend6, Harlan E Spence2, William M Farrell7, Noah E Petro8, Timothy John Stubbs7 and Carle M Pieters9, (1)University of New Hampshire Main Campus, Space Science Center, Durham, NH, United States, (2)Solar System Exploration Research Virtual Institute, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA, United States, (3)Solar System Exploration Research Virtual Institute, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, United States, (4)Aerospace Corporation El Segundo, El Segundo, CA, United States, (5)Lockheed Martin Corporation, Information Systems & Global Solutions, Houston, TX, United States, (6)Arlington, MA, United States, (7)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (8)NASA GSFC, Greenbelt, United States, (9)Brown University, Providence, RI, United States
LRO Lyman Alpha Mapping Project (LAMP) Far-UV Investigations of Lunar Composition, Porosity, and Space Weathering (253079)
Kurt D Retherford1, Thomas K Greathouse2, Kathleen E. Mandt3, Randy Gladstone2, Amanda R Hendrix4, Joshua T Cahill5, Yang Liu1, Dr. Cesare Grava, PhD2, Dana Hurley6, Anthony Egan7, David E. Kaufmann8, Ujjwal Raut2, Benjamin D Byron9, Lizeth O Magana10, Angela M Stickle3, Danielle Y Wyrick1 and Wayne Robert Pryor11, (1)Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, TX, United States, (2)Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, United States, (3)Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD, United States, (4)Planetary Science Institute Albuquerque, Albuquerque, NM, United States, (5)JHU/APL, Laurel, MD, United States, (6)Applied Physics Laboratory Johns Hopkins, Laurel, United States, (7)Southwest Research Institute, Boulder, CO, United States, (8)Southwest Research Institute Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, (9)University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, United States, (10)University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX, United States, (11)Central Arizona College, Science & Engineering Division, Coolidge, United States
Modeling Illumination Conditions on the Moon: Applications to LRO-LAMP (274017)
Benjamin D Byron1, Erwan M Mazarico2, Kurt D Retherford3, Kathleen E. Mandt4, Thomas Greathouse5 and Randy Gladstone3, (1)University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, United States, (2)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States, (3)Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, United States, (4)Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD, United States, (5)Southwest Research Inst, San Antonio, United States

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