Farside explorer: unique science from a mission to the farside of the moon

被引：51

作者：

Mimoun, David ^{[1
]}

Wieczorek, Mark A. ^{[2
]}

Alkalai, Leon ^{[3
]}

Banerdt, W. Bruce ^{[3
]}

Baratoux, David ^{[4
,5
]}

Bougeret, Jean-Louis ^{[6
]}

Bouley, Sylvain ^{[7
]}

Cecconi, Baptiste ^{[6
]}

Falcke, Heino ^{[8
,9
]}

Flohrer, Joachim ^{[10
]}

Garcia, Raphael F. ^{[4
,5
]}

Grimm, Robert ^{[11
]}

Grott, Matthias ^{[10
]}

Gurvits, Leonid ^{[12
,13
]}

Jaumann, Ralf ^{[10
]}

Johnson, Catherine L. ^{[14
,15
]}

Knapmeyer, Martin ^{[10
]}

Kobayashi, Naoki ^{[16
]}

Konovalenko, Alexander ^{[17
]}

Lawrence, David ^{[18
]}

Le Feuvre, Mathieu ^{[19
]}

Lognonne, Philippe ^{[2
]}

Neal, Clive ^{[20
]}

Oberst, Juergen ^{[10
]}

Olsen, Nils ^{[21
]}

Rottgering, Huub ^{[22
]}

Spohn, Tilman ^{[10
]}

Vennerstrom, Susanne ^{[21
]}

Woan, Graham ^{[23
]}

Zarka, Philippe ^{[24
]}

机构：

[1] Univ Toulouse, ISAE, F-31055 Toulouse 4, France

[2] Univ Paris Diderot, Inst Phys Globe Paris, Paris, France

[3] CALTECH, Jet Prop Lab, Pasadena, CA USA

[4] Univ Toulouse, UPS OMP, IRAP, F-31055 Toulouse 4, France

[5] CNRS, IRAP, F-31400 Toulouse, France

[6] Observ Paris, CNRS, F-75014 Paris, France

[7] Observ Paris, Inst Mecan Celeste & Calcul Ephemerides, F-75014 Paris, France

[8] Radboud Univ Nijmegen, ASTRON, NL-6525 ED Nijmegen, Netherlands

[9] MPIfR, Bonn, Germany

[10] German Aerosp Ctr DLR, Berlin, Germany

[11] SW Res Inst, Boulder, CO USA

[12] Joint Inst VLBI Europe, Dwingeloo, Netherlands

[13] Delft Univ Technol, Dept Astrodynam & Space Missions, Delft, Netherlands

[14] Univ British Columbia, Dept Earth & Ocean Sci, Vancouver, BC V5Z 1M9, Canada

[15] Planetary Sci Inst, Tucson, AZ USA

[16] ISAS JAXA, Sagamihara, Kanagawa, Japan

[17] Inst Radio Astron, Kharkov, Ukraine

[18] Johns Hopkins Univ, Appl Phys Lab, Laurel, MD USA

[19] Univ Nantes, Lab Planetol & Geodynam, Nantes, France

[20] Univ Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN 46556 USA

[21] Tech Univ Denmark, Copenhagen, Denmark

[22] Leiden Univ, Leiden Observ, NL-2300 RA Leiden, Netherlands

[23] Univ Glasgow, Sch Phys & Astron, Glasgow, Lanark, Scotland

[24] Univ Paris Diderot, UPMC, CNRS, LESIA,Observ Paris, Paris, France

来源：

EXPERIMENTAL ASTRONOMY | 2012年 / 33卷 / 2-3期

关键词：

Moon; Farside; Radio astronomy; Geophysics; Impact flux; ESA's Cosmic Vision program; NEAR-EARTH OBJECTS; LUNAR-SURFACE; HYPERVELOCITY IMPACTS; LUMINOUS EFFICIENCY; RADIO TELESCOPES; BROAD-BAND; PLANETS; SEISMOMETER; EVOLUTION; EMISSIONS;

D O I：

10.1007/s10686-011-9252-3

中图分类号：

P1 [天文学];

学科分类号：

0704 ;

摘要：

Farside Explorer is a proposed Cosmic Vision medium-size mission to the farside of the Moon consisting of two landers and an instrumented relay satellite. The farside of the Moon is a unique scientific platform in that it is shielded from terrestrial radio-frequency interference, it recorded the primary differentiation and evolution of the Moon, it can be continuously monitored from the Earth-Moon L2 Lagrange point, and there is a complete lack of reflected solar illumination from the Earth. Farside Explorer will exploit these properties and make the first radio-astronomy measurements from the most radio-quiet region of near-Earth space, determine the internal structure and thermal evolution of the Moon, from crust to core, and quantify impact hazards in near-Earth space by the measurement of flashes generated by impact events. The Farside Explorer flight system includes two identical solar-powered landers and a science/telecommunications relay satellite to be placed in a halo orbit about the Earth-Moon L2 Lagrange point. One lander would explore the largest and oldest recognized impact basin in the Solar System- the South Pole-Aitken basin-and the other would investigate the primordial highlands crust. Radio astronomy, geophysical, and geochemical instruments would be deployed on the surface, and the relay satellite would continuously monitor the surface for impact events.

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页码：529 / 585

页数：57