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Both payloads will be delivered tosurface of Earth's natural satellite during future missions under NASA's Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) initiative. “Two studies will address important scientific questions related to the Moon,” explains Joel Kearns, deputy associate administrator for exploration at NASA's Science Mission Directorate. The first will examine the geological processes of early planetary bodies by studying rare forms of lunar volcanism. The second explores the effects of the Moon's low gravity and radiation environment on yeast."
Lunar Vulkan Imaging andThe Spectroscopy Explorer (Lunar-VISE) is a set of five instruments, two of which will be installed on the stationary lander and three on the mobile rover.
Within 10 earth days (one lunarday) Lunar-VISE will explore the top of one of Gruethuisen's domes. They are thought to have emerged from a sticky silica-rich magma similar in composition to granite. On Earth, the formation of such formations requires oceans of liquid water and plate tectonics. But the Moon doesn't have these "ingredients" and scientists had to wonder how these domes formed and evolved over time.
Analyzing lunar regolith at the topone of these domes, the data that the Lunar-VISE instruments will collect and send will help scientists answer fundamental open questions about how these formations came to be. The new data will help guide future robotic and human missions to the Moon.
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