The Lunar Geophysical Network Landing Sites Science Rationale

Global Lunar Geophysical Science

Lunar Science: The Moon provides a unique opportunity to study fundamental questions about the origin and evolution of the inner solar system. While it is widely believed that the Moon was created by the collision of a large object with the Earth during early planetary formation, this has not been conclusively proven. Furthermore, the mechanisms and processes by which this may have occurred are...

Optimal Guidance for Lunar Module Soft Landing

In this paper, we consider an optimal control problem arising from the optimal guidance of a lunar module to achieving soft landing, where the description of the system dynamics is in a three-dimensional coordinate system. Our aim is to construct an optimal guidance law to realize the soft landing of the lunar module with the terminal attitude of the module to be within a small deviation from b...

From Bees’ surface following to Lunar landing

To better grasp the visuomotor control system underlying insects’ height and speed control (Srinivasan et al. 1996, Portelli et al. 2010a), we attempted to interfere with this system by producing a major perturbation on the free flying insect and observing the effect of this perturbation. Honeybees were trained to fly along a high-roofed tunnel, part of which was equipped with a moving floor. T...

Human Responses to the Geophysical Daily, Annual and Lunar Cycles

Collectively the daily, seasonal, lunar and tidal geophysical cycles regulate much of the temporal biology of life on Earth. The increasing isolation of human societies from these geophysical cycles, as a result of improved living conditions, high-quality nutrition and 24/7 working practices, have led many to believe that human biology functions independently of them. Yet recent studies have hi...

Lunar and Planetary Science