Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astronomy
Scientific paper
Sep 2006
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2006dps....38.5708s&link_type=abstract
American Astronomical Society, DPS meeting #38, #57.08; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 38, p.589
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astronomy
Scientific paper
The interim results of an NRC study, commissioned by NASA to provide scientific guidance for the lunar component of the Vision for Space Exploration, are presented. The study, undertaken by a committee of 15, is designed to examine the scientific challenges and opportunities opened up by a sustained program of robotic and human exploration of the Moon. In particular, the NRC has been asked to undertake two primary tasks--first, to identify a prioritized set of scientific goals that can be addressed in the near term by robotic lunar missions and in the mid term by astronauts on the Moon and, second, to determine which of the identified scientific goals are most amenable to orbital measurements, in situ study, or terrestrial analysis via the return of lunar samples to Earth--and two secondary tasks--first, to comment on those areas where there is a synergistic overlap between measurements addressing scientific goals and measurements required to ensure human survival and, second, to collect and characterize possible scientific goals that might be addressed on or from the Moon in the long term. The scientific scope of the study encompasses the history of the Moon and the Earth-Moon system, the origin and evolution of the Sun and planets, and implications for the origin and evolution of life on Earth and elsewhere in the solar system. The publication of the interim results is designed to promote a broad discussion about lunar science goals and to engage the national and international science and engineering communities in defining an appropriate lunar exploration program. A final report will be issued in the latter half of 2007.
Paulikas George A.
Pieters C. F.
Smith David H.
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