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NASA Cameras to Capture Interaction Between Blue Ghost, Moon’s Surface
- NASA's Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia is launching Stereo Cameras for Lunar Plume-Surface Studies (SCALPSS), an array of cameras placed around the base of a lunar lander to collect imagery during and after descent and touchdown.
- The researchers at Langley will use the overlapping images from the version of SCALPSS on Firefly's Blue Ghost — SCALPSS 1.1 — to produce a 3D view of the surface.
- With limited data collected during descent and landing to date, SCALPSS will be the first dedicated instrument to measure the effects of plume-surface interaction on the Moon in real time and help to answer these questions.
- Under the Artemis campaign, the agency’s current lunar exploration approach, NASA is collaborating with commercial and international partners to establish the first long-term presence on the Moon.
- On this CLPS initiative delivery carrying over 200 pounds of NASA science experiments and technology demonstrations, SCALPSS 1.1 will begin capturing imagery from before the time the lander’s plume begins interacting with the surface until after the landing is complete.
- The final images will be gathered on a small onboard data storage unit before being sent to the lander for downlink back to Earth.
- The expected lander-induced erosion they reveal probably won’t be very deep - not this time, anyway.
- The SCALPSS 1.1 project is funded by the Space Technology Mission Directorate’s Game Changing Development Program.
- SCALPSS will work as the U.S. advances human landing systems as part of NASA’s plans to explore more of the lunar surface.
- NASA is working with several American companies to deliver science and technology to the lunar surface under the CLPS initiative.
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