In Situ Optimized Substrate Witness Plates: Ground Truth for Key Processes on the Moon and Other Planets
Abstract Future exploration efforts of the Moon, Mars, and other bodies are poised to focus heavily on persistent and sustainable survey and research efforts, especially given the recent interest in a long‐term sustainable human presence at the Moon. Key to these efforts understands a number of impo...
| الحاوية / القاعدة: | Earth and Space Science |
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American Geophysical Union (AGU)
2023-09-01
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| author | Prabal Saxena Liam S. Morrissey Rosemary M. Killen Jason L. McLain Li Hsia Yeo Natalie M. Curran Nithin S. Abraham Heather V. Graham Orenthal J. Tucker Menelaos Sarantos Aaron B. Regberg Diane E. Pugel Andrew W. Needham Mark Hasegawa Alfred J. Wong |
| author_facet | Prabal Saxena Liam S. Morrissey Rosemary M. Killen Jason L. McLain Li Hsia Yeo Natalie M. Curran Nithin S. Abraham Heather V. Graham Orenthal J. Tucker Menelaos Sarantos Aaron B. Regberg Diane E. Pugel Andrew W. Needham Mark Hasegawa Alfred J. Wong |
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| description | Abstract Future exploration efforts of the Moon, Mars, and other bodies are poised to focus heavily on persistent and sustainable survey and research efforts, especially given the recent interest in a long‐term sustainable human presence at the Moon. Key to these efforts understands a number of important processes on the lunar surface for both scientific and operational purposes. We discuss the potential value of in situ artificial substrate witness plates, powerful tools that can supplement familiar remote sensing and sample acquisition techniques and provide a sustainable way of monitoring processes in key locations on planetary surfaces while maintaining a low environmental footprint. These tools, which we call Biscuits, can use customized materials as wide ranging as zircon‐based spray coatings to metals potentially useable for surface structures, to target specific processes/questions as part of a small, passive witness plate that can be flexibly placed with respect to location and total time duration. We examine and discuss unique case studies to show how processes such as water presence/transport, presence and contamination of biologically relevant molecules, solar activity related effects, and other processes can be measured using Biscuits. Biscuits can yield key location sensitive, time integrated measurements on these processes to inform scientific understanding of the Moon and enable operational goals in lunar exploration. While we specifically demonstrate this on a simulated traverse and for selected examples, we stress all groups interested in planetary surfaces should consider these adaptable, low footprint, and highly informative tools for future exploration. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-4cd33c8fd99748d39e8796c7be2e88bb2025-08-19T22:13:52ZengAmerican Geophysical Union (AGU)Earth and Space Science2333-50842023-09-01109n/an/a10.1029/2023EA003004In Situ Optimized Substrate Witness Plates: Ground Truth for Key Processes on the Moon and Other PlanetsPrabal Saxena0Liam S. Morrissey1Rosemary M. Killen2Jason L. McLain3Li Hsia Yeo4Natalie M. Curran5Nithin S. Abraham6Heather V. Graham7Orenthal J. Tucker8Menelaos Sarantos9Aaron B. Regberg10Diane E. Pugel11Andrew W. Needham12Mark Hasegawa13Alfred J. Wong14Solar System Exploration Division NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Greenbelt MD USASolar System Exploration Division NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Greenbelt MD USASolar System Exploration Division NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Greenbelt MD USASolar System Exploration Division NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Greenbelt MD USASolar System Exploration Division NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Greenbelt MD USASolar System Exploration Division NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Greenbelt MD USAContamination and Coatings Engineering Branch NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Greenbelt MD USASolar System Exploration Division NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Greenbelt MD USASolar System Exploration Division NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Greenbelt MD USASolar System Exploration Division NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Greenbelt MD USAAstromaterials Research and Exploration Science Division NASA Johnson Space Center Houston TX USAContamination and Coatings Engineering Branch NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Greenbelt MD USASolar System Exploration Division NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Greenbelt MD USAContamination and Coatings Engineering Branch NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Greenbelt MD USAContamination and Coatings Engineering Branch NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Greenbelt MD USAAbstract Future exploration efforts of the Moon, Mars, and other bodies are poised to focus heavily on persistent and sustainable survey and research efforts, especially given the recent interest in a long‐term sustainable human presence at the Moon. Key to these efforts understands a number of important processes on the lunar surface for both scientific and operational purposes. We discuss the potential value of in situ artificial substrate witness plates, powerful tools that can supplement familiar remote sensing and sample acquisition techniques and provide a sustainable way of monitoring processes in key locations on planetary surfaces while maintaining a low environmental footprint. These tools, which we call Biscuits, can use customized materials as wide ranging as zircon‐based spray coatings to metals potentially useable for surface structures, to target specific processes/questions as part of a small, passive witness plate that can be flexibly placed with respect to location and total time duration. We examine and discuss unique case studies to show how processes such as water presence/transport, presence and contamination of biologically relevant molecules, solar activity related effects, and other processes can be measured using Biscuits. Biscuits can yield key location sensitive, time integrated measurements on these processes to inform scientific understanding of the Moon and enable operational goals in lunar exploration. While we specifically demonstrate this on a simulated traverse and for selected examples, we stress all groups interested in planetary surfaces should consider these adaptable, low footprint, and highly informative tools for future exploration.https://doi.org/10.1029/2023EA003004Biscuitswitness platesinstrumentationlunarcontaminationwater transport |
| spellingShingle | Prabal Saxena Liam S. Morrissey Rosemary M. Killen Jason L. McLain Li Hsia Yeo Natalie M. Curran Nithin S. Abraham Heather V. Graham Orenthal J. Tucker Menelaos Sarantos Aaron B. Regberg Diane E. Pugel Andrew W. Needham Mark Hasegawa Alfred J. Wong In Situ Optimized Substrate Witness Plates: Ground Truth for Key Processes on the Moon and Other Planets Biscuits witness plates instrumentation lunar contamination water transport |
| title | In Situ Optimized Substrate Witness Plates: Ground Truth for Key Processes on the Moon and Other Planets |
| title_full | In Situ Optimized Substrate Witness Plates: Ground Truth for Key Processes on the Moon and Other Planets |
| title_fullStr | In Situ Optimized Substrate Witness Plates: Ground Truth for Key Processes on the Moon and Other Planets |
| title_full_unstemmed | In Situ Optimized Substrate Witness Plates: Ground Truth for Key Processes on the Moon and Other Planets |
| title_short | In Situ Optimized Substrate Witness Plates: Ground Truth for Key Processes on the Moon and Other Planets |
| title_sort | in situ optimized substrate witness plates ground truth for key processes on the moon and other planets |
| topic | Biscuits witness plates instrumentation lunar contamination water transport |
| url | https://doi.org/10.1029/2023EA003004 |
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