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Scientific Preparations for Lunar Exploration with the European Lunar Lander

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics 2015-06-05 v1 Earth and Planetary Astrophysics
Authors: James D. Carpenter , Richard Fisackerly , Diego De Rosa , Berengere Houdou
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Abstract

This paper discusses the scientific objectives for the ESA Lunar Lander Mission, which emphasise human exploration preparatory science and introduces the model scientific payload considered as part of the on-going mission studies, in advance of a formal instrument selection.

Keywords

lunar exploration ESA Lunar Lander scientific objectives human exploration scientific payload mission studies

Cite

@article{arxiv.1207.4965,
  title  = {Scientific Preparations for Lunar Exploration with the European Lunar Lander},
  author = {James D. Carpenter and Richard Fisackerly and Diego De Rosa and Berengere Houdou},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1207.4965},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

Accepted for Publication in Planetary and Space Science 51 pages, 8 figures, 1 table

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