Education and Outreach Components of the Lunar Prospector Discovery Mission

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Mar 1996

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Lunar and Planetary Science, volume 27, page 469

Computer Science

Discovery Mission, Education, Lunar Prospector, Outreach

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The Lunar Prospector mission was selected as a NASA Discovery Mission in February of 1995. The objective of the mission is to map the Moon's surface composition, magnetic fields, gravity fields and gas release events to improve the understanding of the origin, evolution, current state, and available resources of the Moon. The mission will be accomplished using a small (285 kg wet), relatively simple, spin-stabilized spacecraft in a polar orbit 100 km above the lunar surface. The spacecraft and science instruments are currently being fabricated, with launch scheduled for October 1997. Mission duration is planned to be a minimum of one year. Associated with the mission is a privately financed effort, MoonLinkTM, to involve schools and the general public in activities prior to, during, and after the actual mission. Students and interested individuals or groups in all parts of the world will get to actively interact, via the Internet, with mission controllers and scientists conducting spacecraft operations and data acquisition. Throughout the entire mission, participants will also have the opportunity to investigate uniquely one 150 km by 150 km geographic area on the lunar surface. This will help provide "ownership" in the knowledge gained about the Moon.

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