Lunar Dust on Heat Rejection System Surfaces: Problems and Prospects

Gaier, James R.; Jaworske, Donald A.

doi:10.1063/1.2437437

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“…1b), the Apollo Lunar Surface Experiments Package (ALSEP) instruments (Gaier, 2005;Harris, 1998) (Fig. 1c), or the lunar roving vehicles (LRV) during Apollo 15, 16, and 17 (Gaier and Jaworske, 2007) (Fig. 2b).…”

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Transient thermal envelope for rovers and sample collecting devices on the Moon

Hager

Parzinger

Haarmann

et al. 2015

Advances in Space Research

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Section: Background and Motivationmentioning

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Transient thermal envelope for rovers and sample collecting devices on the Moon

Hager

Parzinger

Haarmann

et al. 2015

Advances in Space Research

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“…As the Apollo missions have shown, even tests in low to high vacuum environments can lead to misleading results which do not accurately simulate the lunar environment (Ref. 2).…”

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Adhesion in a Vacuum Environment and its Implications for Dust Mitigation Techniques on Airless Bodies

Berkebile

Gaier

2012

42nd International Conference on Environmental Systems

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“…To minimize these issues, novel materials and related technologies need to be developed that passively and actively mitigate lunar dust adhesion. [13][14][15][16] Additionally, techniques to assess the efficacy of mitigation strategies need to be developed. This presentation describes the research efforts at NASA Langley Research Center's Advanced Materials and Processing Branch to address both the generation of materials with intrinsic lunar dust adhesion resistance, and the development of techniques to evaluate the performance of these materials.…”

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Generation and Evaluation of Lunar Dust Adhesion Mitigating Materials

Wohl

Connell

Lin

et al. 2011

3rd AIAA Atmospheric Space Environments Conference

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Particulate contamination is of concern in a variety of environments. This issue is especially important in confined spaces with highly controlled atmospheres such as space exploration vehicles involved in extraterrestrial surface missions. Lunar dust was a significant challenge for the Apollo astronauts and will be of greater concern for longer duration, future missions. Passive mitigation strategies, those not requiring external energy, may decrease some of these concerns, and have been investigated in this work. A myriad of approaches to modify the surface chemistry and topography of a variety of substrates was investigated. These involved generation of novel materials, photolithographic techniques, and other template approaches. Additionally, single particle and multiple particle methods to quantitatively evaluate the particle-substrate adhesion interactions were developed.

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Lunar Dust on Heat Rejection System Surfaces: Problems and Prospects

Cited by 33 publications

References 7 publications

Transient thermal envelope for rovers and sample collecting devices on the Moon

Transient thermal envelope for rovers and sample collecting devices on the Moon

Adhesion in a Vacuum Environment and its Implications for Dust Mitigation Techniques on Airless Bodies

Generation and Evaluation of Lunar Dust Adhesion Mitigating Materials

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