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MONS MALAPERT: ILO Base Site Consideration Schrunk, Lowman, Sharpe

MONS MALAPERT: ILO Base Site Consideration Schrunk, Lowman, Sharpe. ILO REQUIREMENTS. COMMUNICATIONS AVAILABILITY SUNLIGHT LANDING AREA SCIENCE COMMERCE. COMMUNICATIONS. CONTINUOUS LINK ANY EARTH FACING SITE. SUNLIGHT. LONG DURATION SOLAR POWER THERMAL STRESS.

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MONS MALAPERT: ILO Base Site Consideration Schrunk, Lowman, Sharpe

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  1. MONS MALAPERT: ILO Base Site Consideration Schrunk, Lowman, Sharpe

  2. ILO REQUIREMENTS • COMMUNICATIONS • AVAILABILITY SUNLIGHT • LANDING AREA • SCIENCE COMMERCE

  3. COMMUNICATIONS • CONTINUOUS LINK • ANY EARTH FACING SITE

  4. SUNLIGHT • LONG DURATION • SOLAR POWER • THERMAL STRESS

  5. SUNLIGHT PROBLEM = LUNAR NIGHTS • EQUATOR / MID-LATITUDES • POLAR REGIONS

  6. SOUTH POLAR REGION • FAVORABLE TOPOGRAPHY • COMMUNICATIONS AND SUNLIGHT

  7. CONTINUOUS COMMUNICAIONS AND LONGEST SUNLIGHT EXPOSURE MONS MALAPERT

  8. MONS MALAPERT • 00 LONGITUDE • 860 SOUTH LATITUDE • ~4700 METER ELEVATION

  9. MONS MALAPERT • SUNLIGHT ~ 88 % • (SHADOWING ?) • 4 – 5 MONTHS • CONTINUOUS SUNLIGHT

  10. Lunar Orbiter 4 Picture of Shackleton Crater Shackleton almost entirely shaded; note decreasing visibility of Amundsen Crater

  11. MONS MALAPERT • LANDING APPROACH • LARGE RADAR • SIGNATURE

  12. Malapert thru the telescope- View 2 of 3 (Land right HERE!) (Land right HERE) Cropped from “Moretus Mosaic” by Wes Higgins, Tecumseh OK, taken 3 Aug 2007 Line of sight from Earth is looking straight down prime meridian; i.e., SP should be directly behind top of peak, and “should” be visible– horizon is ?? Km away. (Maybe it’s that little white dot?)

  13. LOGISTICS - SUMMIT FEATURES • SUITABLE LANDING AREA • 10-30 SQUARE KILOMETERS • REL. SMOOTH TERRAIN

  14. MISSION • ASTRONOMY • LONG DURATION / AXIS • CHARACTERIZE SITE • COMMUNICATION CENTER

  15. SUMMARY MONS MALAPERT OPTIMUM LOCATION FOR ILO MISSION

  16. Malapert thru the telescope- View 1 of 3 Cropped from “S Pole Craters around C Moretus” George Tarsoudis, Alexandropolis Greece, 10 Nov 2006. This is the steepest look angle I’ve seen (greatest Earthward libration; standing atop the mountain, Earth would be at an elevation of 9.3 degrees, azimuth 7.1 degrees east of true North )—Trouble identifying features beyond mtn to the horizon, but SP should be in there someplace on left side.

  17. Malapert thru the telescope- View 3 of 3 “Lunar Photo of the Day” Taken 3 Sep 2004 by Martin Fiedler, Radebeul, Germany Here’s a situation where libration is tipped a couple of degrees away from Earth, putting Shackleton etc beyond the horizon. Since these are telescopic images, there is no perspective/foreshortening; that is, sizes of all features may be compared directly, as they don’t grow smaller with distance.

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