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Requirements for gravity measurements on the anticipated Artemis III mission

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics 2020-09-09 v1 Earth and Planetary Astrophysics

Abstract

The purpose of this document is to demonstrate the reasoning behind the specific measurement requirements in the white paper by James et al. titled "The value of surface-based gravity and gravity gradient measurements at the Moon's south pole with Artemis III". As described in this document, measurement requirements in practice will depend on a number of factors, including the geographic location, the shape of the local terrain, the precision to which elevation is known, and the nature of drift in the gravimeter.

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@article{arxiv.2009.03514,
  title  = {Requirements for gravity measurements on the anticipated Artemis III mission},
  author = {Peter James and Anton Ermakov and Michael Sori},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2009.03514},
  year   = {2020}
}