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Topic: [Discuss] Astrobotic Peregrine lunar lander
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Robert Pearlman
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From: Houston, TX
Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 07-26-2017 09:30 AM
   
Please use this topic to discuss the development of Astrobotic's Peregrine lunar lander. |
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Member Posts: 1178
From: Vancouver, WA, USA
Registered: Feb 2012
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posted 12-08-2022 01:34 PM
Is the target landing area for the Peregrine lunar lander still Lacus Mortis, or has it been changed? |
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Member Posts: 1178
From: Vancouver, WA, USA
Registered: Feb 2012
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posted 12-09-2022 10:46 AM
As of Dec. 6th, apparently the Gruithuisen Domes region is also under consideration. |
Robert Pearlman
Editor Posts: 49899
From: Houston, TX
Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 02-03-2023 09:13 AM
On Thursday (Feb. 2), NASA confirmed the new target landing site as a mare outside of the Gruithuisen Domes on the northeast border of Oceanus Procellarum, or Ocean of Storms. |
SkyMan1958
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From: CA.
Registered: Jan 2011
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posted 02-03-2023 05:35 PM
It seems to me that NASA has a pretty plastic interpretation of the Ocean of Storms. Apollo 12 landed on the Ocean of Storms roughly SSW of Copernicus in an area more or less adjoining Mare Cognitum. Looking at a map it appears the Gruithuisen Domes are more or less at the Western border of Mare Imbrium.I'm just guessing here, but maybe the Ocean of Storms was created by a large precursor asteroid/comet that hit the Moon, and then the subsidiary Mares, such as Imbrium, were created by later impacting asteroids/comets that created their own compression outer ridges that divided the Ocean of Storms into assorted Mares. |
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