The program will design, fabricate, test and fly a multi-modal, high-resolution mapping instrument to characterize pits, craters, and other convex features in flight. The instrument will fly on a Suborbital Reusable Launch Vehicle to an altitude of 600 m and map a 225 km2 area with cross-registered color, depth, temperature and magnetic field.
The ability to modelize planetary surface craters remotely will allow future reconnaissance flyover missions to map a surface and identify future exploration sites. It will benefit future NASA missions to the Moon, Mars and other bodies inside the Solar System.
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