P12A:
Science for a New Era of Lunar Exploration I


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Session ID#: 60233

Session Description:
New science results amassed from data returned by recent lunar missions, including LRO, provide new perspectives on the lunar surface and environment. It is clear that the Moon has significant resource potential, including volatiles and minerals, that could be exploited for the exploration of the Moon as well as deep space. The challenge is to utilize the new data and science results to locate and evaluate lunar resources, identify and characterize high-priority landing sites, plan landings, and operate on the surface or in cis-lunar space. This session will highlight research that either develops tools or uses data or science results at various scales to enable or enhance the planning of future exploration and candidate landing sites. Results that characterize lunar resources or enable their utilization are particularly encouraged.
Primary Convener:  Julie Stopar, Lunar and Planetary Institute, Houston, TX, United States
Conveners:  Barbara A Cohen, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Samuel Lawrence, NASA Johnson Space Center, Astromaterials Research and Exploration Science, Houston, United States and John W Keller, Code 691 SSED, Greenbelt, MD, United States
Primary Liaison:  Julie Stopar, Lunar and Planetary Institute, Houston, TX, United States
Chairs:  Barbara A Cohen, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States and Julie Stopar, Lunar and Planetary Institute, Houston, TX, United States
OSPA Liaison:  John W Keller, Code 691 SSED, Greenbelt, MD, United States

Cross-Listed:
  • C - Cryosphere
  • EP - Earth and Planetary Surface Processes
  • SI - Societal Impacts and Policy Sciences
  • V - Volcanology, Geochemistry and Petrology
Index Terms:

0933 Remote sensing [EXPLORATION GEOPHYSICS]
5460 Physical properties of materials [PLANETARY SCIENCES: SOLID SURFACE PLANETS]
5464 Remote sensing [PLANETARY SCIENCES: SOLID SURFACE PLANETS]
5470 Surface materials and properties [PLANETARY SCIENCES: SOLID SURFACE PLANETS]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Water Vapor, Where Goest Thou? (Invited) (371663)
Parvathy Prem1, Dana Hurley2, David B Goldstein3, Philip L Varghese3, Cesare Grava4 and Kurt D Retherford5, (1)Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD, United States, (2)Applied Physics Laboratory Johns Hopkins, Laurel, United States, (3)University of Texas at Austin, Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics, Austin, TX, United States, (4)Southwest Research Institute San Antonio, Space Sci & Engineering Div, San Antonio, TX, United States, (5)Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, United States
Exploiting water resource in pyroclastic deposits and cold traps on the Moon (Invited) (402428)
Shuai Li, Hawai'i Institute of Geophysics and Planetology, Honolulu, HI, United States, Paul G Lucey, Hawaii Inst Geophys & Planetol, Honolulu, United States and Ralph Milliken, Brown University, Providence, United States
Synthesizing Observations of Water Ice in the Moon's Polar Regions (395185)
Andrew Jordan1, Jody Keith Wilson2, Nathan Schwadron3, Harlan E Spence1 and Noah E Petro4, (1)University of New Hampshire Main Campus, Space Science Center, Durham, NH, United States, (2)University of New Hampshire Main Campus, Space Science Center, Durham, United States, (3)University of New Hampshire, Durham, United States, (4)NASA GSFC, Greenbelt, United States
Illumination Modeling for Data Analysis in Support of Lunar Exploration (413172)
Erwan Mazarico1, Michael Kenneth Barker1 and LRO LOLA Science Team, (1)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States
Analysis of Lunar Boulder Tracks: Implications for Trafficability of Pyroclastic Deposits and Permanently Shadowed Regions (422778)
Valentin Tertius Bickel1,2, Casey I Honniball3, Sabrina Martinez4, Alexander Rogaski5, Hannah M. Sargeant6, Samantha K. Bell7, Ellen Czaplinski8, Benjamin E. Farrant7, Elise Michelle Harrington9, Gavin D. Tolometti9 and David A Kring10,11, (1)University of Bern, Center for Space and Habitability, Bern, Switzerland, (2)ETH Zurich, Geological Institute, Zurich, Switzerland, (3)University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI, United States, (4)Tulane University of Louisiana, New Orleans, United States, (5)South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, Rapid City, SD, United States, (6)Open University, Milton Keynes, United Kingdom, (7)University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom, (8)Honeybee Robotics, Pasadena, United States, (9)University of Western Ontario, London, Canada, (10)Lunar and Planetary Institute, Houston, TX, United States, (11)Center for Lunar Science and Exploration, Houston, United States
Thermal Environments and Illumination in Lunar Pits and Lava Tubes (437753)
Tyler Horvath, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, United States and Paul Ottinger Hayne, University of Colorado, Boulder, Astrophysical and Planetary Sciences Department, Boulder, United States
Investigating Local Variations of Lunar Rock Types at Sites of “Purest Anorthosite” Detection (370611)
Anna Schonwald1, Timothy Hahn Jr1, Ryan N Watkins2 and Brad L Jolliff3, (1)Washington University in St. Louis, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, St. Louis, MO, United States, (2)Planetary Science Institute, Tucson, AZ, United States, (3)Washington University in St. Louis, Department of Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences and the McDonnell Center for the Space Sciences, St. Louis, United States
Ballistic Emplacement Model for Pyroclastic Deposits in Lunar Alphonsus Crater (445784)
Lori M Pigue, Northern Arizona University, Physics & Astronomy, Flagstaff, United States, Lisa R Gaddis, USGS, Flagstaff, AZ, United States, Marc Hunter, United States Geological Survey, Flagstaff, United States and Moses P Milazzo, US Geological Survey, Astrogeology Science Center, Flagstaff, United States

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