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An Overview of the LADEE Ultraviolet-Visible Spectrometer
The Ultraviolet-Visible Spectrometer (UVS) instrument, which flew on the Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE) spacecraft (SC), was one of three science instruments used to characterize the lu...
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An Overview of the LADEE Ultraviolet-Visible Spectrometer
The Ultraviolet-Visible Spectrometer (UVS) instrument, which flew on the Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE) spacecraft (SC), was one of three science instruments used to characterize the lu...
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Locating the LCROSS Impact Craters
The Lunar CRater Observations and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS) mission impacted a spent Centaur rocket stage into a permanently shadowed region near the lunar south pole. The Sheperding Spacecraft (SSC) separate...
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Open AccessThe Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS) Payload Development and Performance in Flight
The primary objective of the Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS) was to confirm the presence or absence of water ice in a permanently shadowed region (PSR) at a lunar pole. LCROSS was class...
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An Overview of the Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS)
The Lunar Crater Observation Sensing Satellite (LCROSS), an accompanying payload to the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) mission (Vondrak et al. 2010), was launched with LRO on 18 June 2009. The principle goal ...
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Open AccessLCROSS (Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite) Observation Campaign: Strategies, Implementation, and Lessons Learned
NASA’s LCROSS (Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite) mission was designed to explore the nature of previously detected enhanced levels of hydrogen near the lunar poles. The LCROSS mission impacted th...
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Open AccessAVIATR—Aerial Vehicle for In-situ and Airborne Titan Reconnaissance
We describe a mission concept for a stand-alone Titan airplane mission: Aerial Vehicle for In-situ and Airborne Titan Reconnaissance (AVIATR). With independent delivery and direct-to-Earth communications, AVIA...
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Albedo of the south pole on Mars determined by topographic forcing of atmosphere dynamics
Why is the south polar cap of Mars not at the geographic south pole? Since the early observations of Mars in the nineteenth century, the peculiar offset of the martian south polar perennial cap of frozen carbo...
