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Aberystwyth in Space – the Moon

Aberystwyth in Space – the Moon. ExoMars Chandrayaan STEREO Bepi VEX Solar B SDO LoFAR IHY. This is a Double Planet . The Moon is the 8 th Continent. The Moon. Ancient body Two major terrains maria (basalts) highlands (crust) Most visited planetary body other than Earth

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Aberystwyth in Space – the Moon

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  1. Aberystwyth in Space – the Moon • ExoMars • Chandrayaan • STEREO • Bepi • VEX • Solar B • SDO • LoFAR • IHY

  2. This is a Double Planet. The Moon is the 8th Continent

  3. The Moon • Ancient body • Two major terrains • maria (basalts) • highlands (crust) • Most visited planetary body other than Earth • Window into our past

  4. Apollo and Luna sample returns • 6 Manned Apollo landings • 3 Luna sample returns • Over 380kg rock and soil brought • So you might think we know all about it • WRONG!! • We still don’t know how the Earth moon system formed

  5. + * + * + * * * Apollo and Luna Landing sites

  6. Unanswered questions about the Moon • How was the Earth Moon system created? • Necessary data for the answer is composition on a global scale (not just from a few landing sites

  7. SMART-1 (ESA) Small Missions in Advanced Research Technology - technology demonstration • Propulsion • Remote sensing: imaging camera IR spectrometer X-ray spectrometer • Radio Science • Telemetry

  8. First time electric propulsion has been used by Europe in space SMART Propulsion

  9. SMART-1 D-CIXS D-CIXS incorporated Two New Technologies • Swept Charge Device (SCD) Detectors • Advanced Microstructure Collimator This Enabled it to provide: • High Throughput X-ray Spectrometer • Compact, light design • Near room temperature operation

  10. D-CIXS X-ray Spectrometer on SMART-1 1 The Sun shines on the Moon (in X rays) 2 The Moon fluoresces 3 Each X-ray energy indicates unambiguously the abundance of a particular element in the surface 4 D-Cixs used two new technologies to detect these X-rays 5 So we can measure what the Moon is made of Sun Shines in X-rays

  11. Detailed task of fitting Lunar composition to the data. This is close to the Apollo 12 landing site

  12. The Future –Kaguya • Japanese KAGUYA was succesfully injected into lunar orbit on Sep. 29 2007 • We are (only) guest investigators on the X-ray instrument • Best ever pictures of the Moon

  13. Lunar Remote Sensing and Cartography

  14. Mapping the Moon (Google Moon) • Current best contour map of the far side of the Moon • Huge positional errors, as big as 10-20 km • SMART-1 nearly impacted in the wrong place because of this • Tony Cook at Aber, who is one of the world’s experts, pointed this out! • Japanese Selene is a desperately needed mission for accurately mapping the Moon, especially landing sites mission

  15. Lunar Base South Pole

  16. UWA Planetary Analogue Terrain Laboratory “Mars Yard” EU facility ½ scale (ExoMars Phase A) 18 × DoF chassis

  17. UWA Planetary Analogue Terrain Laboratory (PAT Lab.) - 2 Part of PAT Lab. with DLR Mars soil simulant-D UWA PanCam (can be mounted on chassis) UWA 3 DoF ARM and DLR • Mole (can be • mounted • on chassis) Small selection of instruments and science target rocks Link with PAFS-NET

  18. A robot telescope on the Moon Our robot telescope is available for teaching and is also practicing for the Moon! And we provide Seagullcam!

  19. C1XS

  20. C1XS – Aberystwyth Returns to the Moon! • C1XS in Bangalore after preliminary integration • XSM delivered • Awaiting final integration and launch (19 Sept)

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