Thermal Control Architecture for a Planetary and Lunar Surface Exploration Micro-Robot by Burg, Brian R, Dubowsky, Steven, Lienhard, John H, Poulikakos, Dimos

“…A thermal control architecture design study is conducted for a novel robotic planetary and lunar surface exploration concept. The concept is based on the deployment of a large number of small spherical mobile robots over large areas, which employ hopping, bouncing and rolling as means of locomotion. …”
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Lunar Surface Temperature and Emissivity Retrieval From Diviner Lunar Radiometer Experiment Sensor by Huazhong Ren, Jing Nie, Jiaji Dong, Rongyuan Liu, Wenzhe Fa, Ling Hu, Wenjie Fan

Subjects: “…Lunar surface temperature…”
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Absolute radiometric calibration with lunar surface reflectance as reference for earth-observing VNIR camera by Wei Tan, Xiaoyan Wang, Hongyan He, Wenwen Qi

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AN INTEGRATED PHOTOGRAMMETRIC AND PHOTOCLINOMETRIC APPROACH FOR PIXEL-RESOLUTION 3D MODELLING OF LUNAR SURFACE by W. C. Liu, B. Wu

“…High-resolution 3D modelling of lunar surface is important for lunar scientific research and exploration missions. …”
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Distribution characteristics of hydrogen elements on lunar surface based on CE2-GRS data by LI Yonghui, ZHAO Jiankun, JIANG Shuang, WANG Feiliang, WU Hexi, LIU Yibao

“…Comparison between the distribution characteristics of hydrogen elements on the lunar surface and the data of epithermal neutrons from Lunar Prospector (LP) reveals a highly negative correlation between the distribution characteristics of the two in these regions.ConclusionsThe distribution characteristics of hydrogen elements on the lunar surface further predict that there may be a large amount of structural water in the Mare Ingenii, Mare Imbrium, and Oceanus Procellarum, formed by the combination of hydroxyl groups or molecular hydrogen (H2), achieving a better understanding of the orbit γ deep mining and scientific application of energy spectrum data.…”
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Evidence of water on the lunar surface from Chang’E-5 in-situ spectra and returned samples by Jianjun Liu, Bin Liu, Xin Ren, Chunlai Li, Rong Shu, Lin Guo, Songzheng Yu, Qin Zhou, Dawei Liu, Xingguo Zeng, Xingye Gao, Guangliang Zhang, Wei Yan, Hongbo Zhang, Lihui Jia, Shifeng Jin, Chunhua Xu, Xiangjin Deng, Jianfeng Xie, Jianfeng Yang, Changning Huang, Wei Zuo, Yan Su, Weibin Wen, Ziyuan Ouyang

“…Laboratory analysis of returned Chang’E-5 samples from the lunar surface show their hydroxyl contents to be on the weak end of lunar hydration features.…”
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Dependence of the Hydration of the Lunar Surface on the Concentrations of TiO₂, Plagioclase, and Spinel by Marcel Hess, Christian Wöhler, Alexey A. Berezhnoy, Janice L. Bishop, Vladislav V. Shevchenko

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Lunar surface mineralogy using hyperspectral data: Implications for primordial crust in the Earth–Moon system by V. Sivakumar, R. Neelakantan, M. Santosh

“…Mineralogy of the Lunar surface provides important clues for understanding the composition and evolution of the primordial crust in the Earth–Moon system. …”
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Analysis of the First Optical Detection of a Meteoroidal Impact on the Lunar Surface Recorded from Brazil by David Duarte Cavalcante Pinto, Masahisa Yanagisawa, Marcelo Luiz do Prado Villarroel Zurita, Romualdo Arthur Alencar Caldas, Marcelo Domingues, Rafaela Lisboa Costa, Rodrigo Lins da Rocha Júnior, Fabrício Daniel dos Santos Silva, Heliofábio Barros Gomes, Helber Barros Gomes, Maria Luciene Dias de Melo, Lucas de Morais Teixeira, Ernande Roberto da Silva Júnior, Neftali Dias Cavalcante Junior, Dirceu Luís Herdies

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Comprehensive mapping of lunar surface chemistry by adding Chang'e-5 samples with deep learning by Chen Yang, Xinmei Zhang, Lorenzo Bruzzone, Bin Liu, Dawei Liu, Xin Ren, Jon Atli Benediktsson, Yanchun Liang, Bo Yang, Minghao Yin, Haishi Zhao, Renchu Guan, Chunlai Li, Ziyuan Ouyang

“…Abstract Lunar surface chemistry is essential for revealing petrological characteristics to understand the evolution of the Moon. …”
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Pol-SAR Image Simulation of the Lunar Surface With Data Analysis of Chandrayaan-2 and Mini-RF by Niutao Liu, Ya-Qiu Jin

“…Scatterings from lunar surfaces are numerically simulated with the Kirchhoff approximation and small perturbation model. …”
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Analysis of Rock Abundance on Lunar Surface and Near-Surface Using Mini-RF SAR Data by Yao Gao, Fei Zhao, Wentao Hou, Yonghui Han, Mingliang Liu, Yanan Dang, Pingping Lu, Robert Wang

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Research on the Improvement of Semi-Global Matching Algorithm for Binocular Vision Based on Lunar Surface Environment by Ying-Qing Guo, Mengjiao Gu, Zhao-Dong Xu

“…The low light conditions, abundant dust, and rocky terrain on the lunar surface pose challenges for scientific research. …”
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LCNS Positioning of a Lunar Surface Rover Using a DEM-Based Altitude Constraint by Floor Thomas Melman, Paolo Zoccarato, Csilla Orgel, Richard Swinden, Pietro Giordano, Javier Ventura-Traveset

“…With the renewed interest in lunar surface exploration, the European Space Agency envisions to stimulate the creation of lunar communications and navigation services (LCNS) to enable, among others, autonomous navigation capabilities for lunar rovers. …”
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Analyzing LDEX's Current Measurements in Lunar Orbit by Edwin Bernardoni, Mihály Horányi, Jamey R. Szalay

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Generating Function Reallocation to Handle Contingencies in Human–Robot Teaming Missions: The Cases in Lunar Surface Transportation by Yan Fu, Wen Guo, Haipeng Wang, Shuqi Xue, Chunhui Wang

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Quantitative Inversion of Lunar Surface Chemistry Based on Hyperspectral Feature Bands and Extremely Randomized Trees Algorithm by Shuangshuang Wu, Jianping Chen, Li Li, Cheng Zhang, Rujin Huang, Quanping Zhang

“…The study of the distribution of the lunar surface elements (Fe, Ti, Al, and Si) is the basis for the in situ utilization of mineral resources. …”
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Machine Learning Fusion Multi-Source Data Features for Classification Prediction of Lunar Surface Geological Units by Wei Zuo, Xingguo Zeng, Xingye Gao, Zhoubin Zhang, Dawei Liu, Chunlai Li

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Measurement of properties of the lunar surface using the Diviner Lunar Radiometer experiment on the NASA Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter by Thomas, I

“…Diviner is the first orbiting multi-spectral instrument to observe the lunar surface in the mid- and far- infrared, therefore this thesis details the first steps towards utilising observations in this new spectral region.…”

Surface Roughness at the Moon’s South Pole: The Influence of Condensed Volatiles on Surface Roughness at the Moon’s South Pole by Lizeth O. Magaña, Parvathy Prem, Ariel N. Deutsch, Anna C. Martin, Heather M. Meyer, Caleb I. Fassett, Michael K. Barker, Angela Stickle, Benjamin D. Byron, Kathleen E. Mandt, Kurt D. Retherford

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