Kurzbeschreibung
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CHILLI is an instrument programme to study the context and local surface properties of the Beresheet-2 landing site(s) by visual stereo imaging. Beresheet-2 is a follow-up mission to the Beresheet lunar lander programme which crashed on the Moon on 11 April 2019 following a failure of its gyroscopes. Beresheet 2 is a programme of SpaceIL, an Israeli organization, established in 2011, that competed in the Google Lunar X Prize (GLXP) contest to land a spacecraft on the Moon.
CHILLI is based upon the use of the MCAMv3 product that has been produced for NASA’s Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover (VIPER) rover mission that is due to launch in November 2024. CHILLI will determine the surface regolith properties, assess the local geomorphology, detect potential physical changes (impacts, dust levitation), and identify mineralogical heterogeneity at the landing site(s) using wide angle and narrow angle imaging.
CHILLI will also assess the effects of the landing system on the properties of the local regolith as a precursor for future manned landed mission (i.e. Artemis) where experiments require access to pristine materials. CHILLI will further help to provide ground-truth and calibrate observations made by Beresheet 2 and other spacecraft from orbit. Lastly, CHILLI will help validate and demonstrate the potential of machine learning-driven (simulated on-board) data processing and anomaly detection. The CHILLI team is based around expertise from across Switzerland with experience in spacecraft remote sensing, camera system development, planetary geology and soil mechanics, machine learning, high level data analysis, operations, data archiving, and education of young researchers.
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