Progress Report on Landing Site Evaluation for the Next Japanese Lunar Exploration Project: SELENE-2

Details Progress Report on Landing Site Evaluation for the Next Japanese Lunar Exploration Project: SELENE-2 Progress Report on Landing Site Evaluation for the Next Japanese Lunar Exploration Project: SELENE-2

Dec 2010

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2010agufm.p51c1462s&link_type=abstract

American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2010, abstract #P51C-1462

Mathematics

Logic

[5455] Planetary Sciences: Solid Surface Planets / Origin And Evolution, [6250] Planetary Sciences: Solar System Objects / Moon, [6297] Planetary Sciences: Solar System Objects / Instruments And Techniques

Scientific paper

SELENE-2 is the next Japanese lunar exploration project that is planned to be launched by the end of fiscal year 2015. In order to select the landing site candidates which maximize the scientific return from the project, "SELENE-2 Landing Site Research Board" was organized in March, 2010. The board called for scientific proposals with landing site candidates from domestic researchers who are interested in lunar science and members of the Japanese Society for Planetary Sciences, Japan Association of Mineralogical Sciences, the Geochemical Society of Japan, Seismological society of Japan, or the Geodetic society of Japan. At present, we have 35 scientific proposals with over 70 landing site candidates submitted from 21 groups. The proposals were categorized into nine research subjects as follows: 1) Identification of mantle materials, 2) Temporal variation of igneous activity and thermal history of the moon, 3) Lava morphology, 4) Origin of swirl, 5) Crater formation mechanism, 6) Core size, 7) Internal structure (crust - mantle), 8) Origin of the region enriched in heat source elements, and 9) Origin of highland crust. We are evaluating the proposals with the landing sites, and discussing the scientific target of SELENE-2. Within 6 months, we will propose several model missions which execute the scientific exploration with the highest priority today. In our presentation, the present landing site candidates, the policy of the selection, and a plan of a further landing site selection process would be shown.

Affiliated with

Also associated with

No associations

Rating

Progress Report on Landing Site Evaluation for the Next Japanese Lunar Exploration Project: SELENE-2 does not yet have a rating. At this time, there are no reviews or comments for this scientific paper.

If you have personal experience with Progress Report on Landing Site Evaluation for the Next Japanese Lunar Exploration Project: SELENE-2, we encourage you to share that experience with our LandOfFree.com community. Your opinion is very important and Progress Report on Landing Site Evaluation for the Next Japanese Lunar Exploration Project: SELENE-2 will most certainly appreciate the feedback.

Rate now

Comments { 0 }

Profile ID: LFWR-SCP-O-1498089