Whitepaper #251 submitted to the Planetary Science and Astrobiology Decadal Survey 2023-2032. Topics: habitability and water; Mercury and/or the Moon; solar system formation, dynamics processes, and chronology
by Paul Hayne, David Paige, Andrew Ingersoll, Oded Aharonson, Shane Byrne, Barbara Cohen, Anthony Colaprete, Christopher S. Edwards, Emily J. Foote, Benjamin T. Greenhagen, Amanda Hendrix, Brendan Hermalyn, Mihaly Horanyi, Yang Liu, Paul G. Lucey, Benjamin K. Malphrus, Thomas B. McCord, Michael J. Poston, Gerald B. Sanders, Norbert Schörghofer, Matthew M. Siegler, Robert L. Staehle, and Wayne Zimmerman
Published onMar 18, 2021
New Approaches to Lunar Ice Detection and Mapping
Water and other volatiles are fundamental tracers of habitable environments on terrestrial planets and satellites. Ice deposits in the polar regions of the Moon present an opportunity to understand the delivery and retention of water and other volatiles in the inner solar system.
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