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'''**OL Science Team meetings will commence in Feb 2009. Please contact Melissa (contact info at [http://www.openluna.org/bios.shtml]) if you have relevant expertise & would like to participate in future meetings. Meeting notes will be posted here: [[OpenLuna Science]].**'''
 
'''**OL Science Team meetings will commence in Feb 2009. Please contact Melissa (contact info at [http://www.openluna.org/bios.shtml]) if you have relevant expertise & would like to participate in future meetings. Meeting notes will be posted here: [[OpenLuna Science]].**'''
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'''February 4, 2009'''
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'''OpenLuna Science Team Meeting Notes'''
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'''In attendance:''' Dom, Simon, Matt, Haley, Ed, Mel
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'''''Absent:''' Rhi, Em, Rod, Laura, Annie''
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'''Location:''' University of Western Ontario, Centre for Planetary Science & Exploration, http://planetsci.uwo.ca/
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'''Meeting Agenda:'''
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1. Overview of the tasks at hand (scouting class & sample return class missions, for now);
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2. Top-level brainstorming of major science goals & requirements on the planned near-term lunar robotic missions;
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3. Discuss specific points:
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• Possible landing locations (regions, not specific sites) + rationale?
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• What instrumentation do we need on each of the rovers?
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• Science payload requirements for each of the landers?
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• What sort of payload space/mass do we need to plan for on the landers & satellite?
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• How small of a payload could be useful? Note that Science Payload = roughly 20 lbs per rover, for ~10 rovers (exact mass of payload will determine the number of rovers, therefore limiting or increasing # of potential landing sites)
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'''Results of brainstorming:'''
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• Camera on each rover (TBD)
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• Reflector on top of each rover for lazer ranging
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• Test life detection tools on “planted” organic matter
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• Petri dish “mini-dome” or spores (seed a panel of the lander?)
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• Plant growth experiments with regolith
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• Micrometeorite flux measurement: aerogel on each rover
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• Dosimeter: flux of one or more types of radiation
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• Save one rover for PR: just a camera & arm
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• LIDAR for dust settling (but ~100 lbs)
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• Mini-mass spectrometer (Carleton engineering, working with CSA – toaster sized)
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• Dost lofting at the terminator
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• Microwave sintering experiment; before & after shots, “lunar fire pit”
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• Reactivity of lunar dust: measuring oxidation state
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• ChemMin – XRD, XRF
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• APXS
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• Trenches, stratigraphy, look for permafrost
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• GPR, stratigraphy, look for permafrost
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• Study carbon (meteorite implanted) in regolith
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• Lunar volatiles
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• Geophysics (seismics, part of International lunar network)
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'''Landing sites:''' near south pole, permanently shadowed + sunlit areas, spanning to terminator “The D” – recently outgassing volcano
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Revision as of 13:00, 5 February 2009

**OL Science Team meetings will commence in Feb 2009. Please contact Melissa (contact info at [1]) if you have relevant expertise & would like to participate in future meetings. Meeting notes will be posted here: OpenLuna Science.**


February 4, 2009

OpenLuna Science Team Meeting Notes


In attendance: Dom, Simon, Matt, Haley, Ed, Mel

Absent: Rhi, Em, Rod, Laura, Annie


Location: University of Western Ontario, Centre for Planetary Science & Exploration, http://planetsci.uwo.ca/


Meeting Agenda: 1. Overview of the tasks at hand (scouting class & sample return class missions, for now); 2. Top-level brainstorming of major science goals & requirements on the planned near-term lunar robotic missions; 3. Discuss specific points: • Possible landing locations (regions, not specific sites) + rationale? • What instrumentation do we need on each of the rovers? • Science payload requirements for each of the landers? • What sort of payload space/mass do we need to plan for on the landers & satellite? • How small of a payload could be useful? Note that Science Payload = roughly 20 lbs per rover, for ~10 rovers (exact mass of payload will determine the number of rovers, therefore limiting or increasing # of potential landing sites)


Results of brainstorming: • Camera on each rover (TBD) • Reflector on top of each rover for lazer ranging • Test life detection tools on “planted” organic matter • Petri dish “mini-dome” or spores (seed a panel of the lander?) • Plant growth experiments with regolith • Micrometeorite flux measurement: aerogel on each rover • Dosimeter: flux of one or more types of radiation • Save one rover for PR: just a camera & arm • LIDAR for dust settling (but ~100 lbs) • Mini-mass spectrometer (Carleton engineering, working with CSA – toaster sized) • Dost lofting at the terminator • Microwave sintering experiment; before & after shots, “lunar fire pit” • Reactivity of lunar dust: measuring oxidation state • ChemMin – XRD, XRF • APXS • Trenches, stratigraphy, look for permafrost • GPR, stratigraphy, look for permafrost • Study carbon (meteorite implanted) in regolith • Lunar volatiles • Geophysics (seismics, part of International lunar network)


Landing sites: near south pole, permanently shadowed + sunlit areas, spanning to terminator “The D” – recently outgassing volcano


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