The Lunar Transverse Maps - Revision history

Jriley at 12:04, 30 March 2008

2008-03-30T12:04:24Z

Jriley: remove reduncant title

2008-03-30T12:03:41Z

remove reduncant title

Cfrjlr: /* X-Prize Examples */ Google Lunar X Prize‎

2008-03-29T18:40:28Z

X-Prize Examples: Google Lunar X Prize‎

Cfrjlr: /* X-Prize Examples */ spelling (what happened to the spell checker?)

2008-03-29T18:34:14Z

X-Prize Examples: spelling (what happened to the spell checker?)

Cfrjlr: /* X-Prize Examples */ links

2008-03-29T18:31:16Z

X-Prize Examples: links

Cfrjlr: /* Data Sources */ probe links

2008-03-29T18:30:23Z

Data Sources: probe links

Jriley: /* Via Borealis / Via Australis */

2008-03-29T13:13:11Z

Via Borealis / Via Australis

Jriley: /* Naming Rights */

2008-03-29T13:04:23Z

Naming Rights

Jriley: /* Via Borealis / Via Australis */

2008-03-29T13:02:56Z

Via Borealis / Via Australis

Jriley: /* Via Borealis / Via Australis */

2008-03-29T12:50:11Z

Via Borealis / Via Australis

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-<font size=5> A proposal for a major student proejct</font>
+<font size=5> A proposal for a major student project</font>
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-<font size=5> The Lunar Transverse Maps Project</font>
+<font size=5> A proposal for a major student proejct</font>
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-In 2009 massive amounts of new lunar data will become available to the public.  This is a resource worth billions of dollars. Students can use the new data for their projects too.
+In 2009 massive amounts of new lunar data will become available to the public.  This is a resource worth billions of dollars. Students can use the new data for their projects too. This is a proposal for a major Web based project to put this new power into the hands of high school and college students.
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 The [[X-Prize]] organization is currently running a contest with a 30 million dollar prize for the first private lunar rover.  This contest is of great interest to technical students.
-''[[X-Prize Lunar Lander Challenge]]'' [http://space.xprize.org/lunar-lander-challenge/]
+''[[Google Lunar X Prize‎]]'' [http://space.xprize.org/lunar-lander-challenge/]
 The winner must minimally:

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 === Special Considerations ===
-To do an outstand job and go beyond simply winning a prize, the small rovers for the X-Prize will have to overcome a number of difficulties:
+To do an outstanding job and go beyond simply winning a prize, the small rovers for the X-Prize will have to overcome a number of difficulties:
 # Cost of Development – Development cost must be kept low and within the capabilities of an university undergraduate team.  For example, it is possible to develop mechanical and electronic devices that work reliably at 110ºC and that can be frozen and thawed from cryogenic temperatures (<?100ºC), but these features are very expensive to develop and beyond the capabilities of most student projects.
 # Easy lunar access – This effort requires a low cost trip to the surface of the Moon with the maximum amount of payload mass delivered for each dollar spent.  This will place limitations on the selection of the landing site.  It must be on the near side and within a limited range of latitudes near the equator.
-# Safe landing – The landing site must not have bolder or small crater fields.
+# Safe landing – The landing site must not have boulder or small crater fields.
 # Not too hot – The survey locations must have survivable temperatures in the day, not too high, if the rover is to survive more than a few hours.  Different rover designs will have different cooling strategies that will determine the high temperature limitation it can survive.
 # Points of Scientific Interest – There needs to be some real reason for the trip.  Just getting there and declaring, “We won!” is hardly worth the cost of the trip.

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 == X-Prize Examples ==
-The X-Prize organization is currently running a contest with a 30 million dollar prize for the first private lunar rover.  This contest is of great interest to technical students.
+The [[X-Prize]] organization is currently running a contest with a 30 million dollar prize for the first private lunar rover.  This contest is of great interest to technical students.
-''X-Prize Lunar Lander Challenge'' [http://space.xprize.org/lunar-lander-challenge/]
+''[[X-Prize Lunar Lander Challenge]]'' [http://space.xprize.org/lunar-lander-challenge/]
 The winner must minimally:

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 This engineering map work cannot start until the new science data is available to the public.  The primary sources for data are:
-# Kaguya, Japan -- Full coverage with the most detailed photograph for orbit ever is to be made public in the 3rd quarter of 2009.
+# [[Kaguya]], Japan -- Full coverage with the most detailed photograph for orbit ever is to be made public in the 3rd quarter of 2009.
-# Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), USA – Data will start to be public in the 2nd quarter of 2009 and continue for at least two years.
+# [[Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter]] (LRO), USA – Data will start to be public in the 2nd quarter of 2009 and continue for at least two years.
 # Others – A number of other missions may make new data available in the same time frame.

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 The idea then is to develop software that will let students produce the critical local lunar maps from the new lunar data.  In this process the students search out a route for the Via Borealis (the Northern Road) and the Via Australis (the Southern Road).  The maps must allow checking slope, daytime top temperature, solar power availability, and Earth communication availability.  The routes will include sprints across open lands, maze walks through dense bolder and carter fields, and paths through critical mountain passes.   At present it is not even clear that such routes exist.
 Via Borealis (the Northern Road) will run about 3750 kilometers (2400 miles) crossing the Mare Frigoris (Sea of Cold) on the Nearside and then crossing 2000 kilometers of Farside highlands to regain Earth view near the small Mare Humboldtianum (the Humboldt Sea).
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 The students will not be looking for a single route but instead every possible route that meets all the rover survival criteria.  Once these roads are established, we will need to find side routes from the main roads to places of scientific interest closer to the equator that can be transversed in a view tens of hours on a pleasant morning.
 [[Image:SandSnakeRover01.jpg|frame|Sand Snake Rover]]

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 # Historic man-made artifacts (e.g. Tranquility Base)
-Difficult names to get improved might include:
+Difficult names to get approved might include:
 # Living people

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