An insight into India's Moon mission – Chandrayan-3: The first nation to land on the southernmost polar region of the Moon

Kanu, Nand Jee; Gupta, Eva; Verma, Girish C.

doi:10.1016/j.pss.2024.105864

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“…Its rover went into hibernation before the start of the lunar night on Remote Sens. 2024, 16, 1270 3 of 24 3 September, after working during the lunar day [31]. The Artemis program, led by NASA and involving several countries, aims to resume manned lunar landings [32][33][34].…”

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Enhanced Interactive Rendering for Rovers of Lunar Polar Region and Martian Surface

Bi,

Jin,

Chen

et al. 2024

Remote Sensing

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Appropriate environmental sensing methods and visualization representations are crucial foundations for the in situ exploration of planets. In this paper, we developed specialized visualization methods to facilitate the rover’s interaction and decision-making processes, as well as to address the path-planning and obstacle-avoidance requirements for lunar polar region exploration and Mars exploration. To achieve this goal, we utilize simulated lunar polar regions and Martian environments. Among them, the lunar rover operating in the permanently shadowed region (PSR) of the simulated crater primarily utilizes light detection and ranging (LiDAR) for environmental sensing; then, we reconstruct a mesh using the Poisson surface reconstruction method. After that, the lunar rover’s traveling environment is represented as a red-green-blue (RGB) image, a slope coloration image, and a theoretical water content coloration image, based on different interaction needs and scientific objectives. For the rocky environment where the Mars rover is traveling, this paper enhances the display of the rocks on the Martian surface. It does so by utilizing depth information of the rock instances to highlight their significance for the rover’s path-planning and obstacle-avoidance decisions. Such an environmental sensing and enhanced visualization approach facilitates rover path-planning and remote–interactive operations, thereby enabling further exploration activities in the lunar PSR and Mars, in addition to facilitating the study and communication of specific planetary science objectives, and the production and display of basemaps and thematic maps.

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