Transient thermal envelope for rovers and sample collecting devices on the Moon. Issue 5 (1st March 2015)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Hager, P.B.; Parzinger, S.; Haarmann, R.; Walter, U.
• Is Part Of: Advances in space research. Volume 55:Issue 5(2015)
• Page Start: 1477
• Page End: 1494
• Publication Date: 2015-03-01
• Subjects: Space sciences -- Periodicals; Astronautics -- Periodicals; Geophysics -- Periodicals; 500.505
• DOI: 10.1016/j.asr.2014.12.012
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0273-1177

Abstract

<abstract xml:lang="en" abstract-type="author-highlights" id="ab005"> <title id="st100">Highlights</title> <sec> <p id="sp0005"> <list id="l0005"> <list-item id="o0005"> <label></label> <p id="p0250">Boulders and craters alter infrared and solar heat fluxes on rovers and sample collecting devices.</p> </list-item> <list-item id="o0010"> <label></label> <p id="p0255">The effects increase with decreasing solar elevation angles.</p> </list-item> <list-item id="o0015"> <label></label> <p id="p0260">Regolith in sample collecting devices is vulnerable to direct solar illumination.</p> </list-item> </list> </p> </sec> </abstract>