Lunar craters

Origin of discrepancies between crater size-frequency distributions of coeval lunar geologic units via target property contrasts

C. H. van der Bogert, H. Hiesinger, C. M. Dundas, T. Krüger, A. S. McEwen, M. Zanetti, M. S. Robinson

Citations: 73 • 2016

High-priority lunar landing sites for in situ and sample return studies of polar volatiles

M. Lemelin, D. M. Blair, C. Roberts, Kirby Runyon, D. Nowka, D. A. Kring

Citations: 57 • 2014

Moon Diver: A Discovery Mission Concept for Understanding the History of Secondary Crusts through the Exploration of a Lunar Mare Pit

Issa Nesnas, Laura Kerber, Aaron Parness, Richard P. Kornfeld, Glenn Sellar, Patrick McGarey, Travis Brown, Michael Paton, Miles Smith, Andrew Johnson, Matthew Heverly, Jacek Sawoniewicz, Christopher Yahnker, Torkom Pailevanian, Eric Sunada, Bryant Gaume, Aaron Curtis, C. M. Elder, Kyle Uckert, Mar Vaquero, Yang Cheng, B. W. Denevi, L. M. Jozwiak, A. M. Stickle, J. L. Whitten, L. Keszthelyi, J. Haruyama, R. V. Wagner, P. O. Hayne, Tyler Horvath, J. W. Head, Joshua Hopkins, John Ricks, Emily Boster

Citations: 32 • 2019

LUNARES: lunar crater exploration with heterogeneous multi robot systems

Florian Cordes, Ingo Ahrns, Sebastian Bartsch, Timo Birnschein, Alexander Dettmann, Stéphane Estable, Stefan Haase, Jens Hilljegerdes, David Koebel, Steffen Planthaber, Thomas M. Roehr, Marc Scheper, Frank Kirchner

Citations: 30 • 2010

Conceptual Design of the Lunar Crater Radio Telescope (LCRT) on the Far Side of the Moon

Saptarshi Bandyopadhyay, Patrick McGarey, Ashish Goel, Ramin Rafizadeh, Melanie Delapierre, Manan Arya, Joseph Lazio, P. F. Goldsmith, Nacer Chahat, Adrian Stoica, Marco B. Quadrelli, Issa Nesnas, Kenneth Jenks, Gregg Hallinan

Citations: 27 • 2021

Geological features and evolution history of Sinus Iridum, the Moon

Le Qiao, Long Xiao, Jiannan Zhao, Qian Huang, J. Haruyama

Citations: 26 • 2014

Spillage of lunar polar crater volatiles onto adjacent terrains: The case for dynamic processes

W. M. Farrell, D. M. Hurley, M. I. Zimmerman

Citations: 25 • 2015

Design and Experimentation of a Rover Concept for Lunar Crater Resource Survey

David Wettergreen, Dominic Jonak, David Kohanbash, Scott Moreland, Spencer Spiker, James Teza, W. Whittaker

Citations: 22 • 2009

Revealing the Mechanical Characteristics via Kinematic Wave Model for Snake-Like Robot Executing Exploration of Lunar Craters

Xuyan Hou, Yuetian Shi, Long Li, Ye Tian, Yilin Su, Zongquan Deng

Citations: 17 • 2020

CESAR: A lunar crater exploration and sample return robot

Jakob Schwendner, Felix Grimminger, Sebastian Bartsch, Thilo Kaupisch, Mehmed Yüksel, Andreas Bresser, Joel Bessekon Akpo, Michael K.-G. Seydel, Alexander Dieterle, Steffen Schmidt, Frank Kirchner

Citations: 17 • 2009

A crater detection and identification algorithm for autonomous lunar landing

Sébastien Clerc, Marc Spigai, Vincent Simard-Bilodeau

Citations: 15 • 2010

Peaks of Eternal Light on the Lunar South Pole: How They Were Found and What They Look Like

Michiel Kruijff

Citations: 13 • 2000

Conceptual Design of a Crater Lunar Base

Alice Eichold

Citations: 12 • 1996

Study on wheeled forms of lunar robots for traversing soft terrain

Kojiro Iizuka, Y. Kunii, Takuji Kubota

Citations: 8 • 2008

A Soft Spherical Robot for Lunar Crater Exploration

Micah J. Oevermann, Robert Ambrose, Meghali Prashant Dravid

Citations: 6 • 2024

Possible Landing site for Chandrayaan-2 Rover

O. P. N. Calla, Shubhra Mathur, Kishan Lal Gadri

Citations: 5 • 2016

Detecting Loose Regolith in Lunar Craters Using Thermal Imaging

Christopher Cunningham, William Whittaker, Issa Nesnas

Citations: 5 • 2016

Prospecting Rovers for Lunar Exploration

Jerry B. Graham

Citations: 4 • 2007

Physical Transportation on the Moon: The Lunar Railroad

David G. Schrunk, Madhu Thangavelu, B. L. Cooper, Burton L. Sharpe

Citations: 3 • 1998

Candidate site for a robotic lunar observatory: The central peak of Riccioli crater

Paul D. Lowman

Citations: 2 • 1995