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Detection of Water in the LCROSS Ejecta Plume

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Testing polar spots of water‐rich permafrost on the Moon: LEND observations onboard LRO

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Low CO/CO 2 ratios of comet 67P measured at the Abydos landing site by the Ptolemy mass spectrometer

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Mechanical Properties of Icy Lunar Regolith: Application to ISRU on the Moon and Mars

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PROSPECT: ESA's Package for Resource Observation and In-Situ Prospecting for Exploration, Commercial Exploitation, and Transportation

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Planetary Volatiles Extractor (PVEX) for In Situ Resource Utilization (ISRU) on the Moon

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Experimental Feasibility Study of On-Site Detection of OH/H2O due to In-Situ Thermal Processing of Lunar Regolith

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ispace's Polar Ice Explorer: A Commercial ISRU Exploration Mission to the South Pole of the Moon

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LUVMI: a Concept of Low Footprint Lunar Volatiles Mobile Instrumentation

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Water in and on the Moon: recent discoveries and future prospects

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Stamp-Heater Instrument Concept for Mobile In-Situ Extraction and Analysis of Lunar Volatiles

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Overview of the Lunar In Situ Resource Utilization Techniques for Future Lunar Missions

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Energy system and resource utilization in space: A state-of-the-art review

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Thermal extraction of water ice from the lunar surface - A 3D numerical model

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Experimental investigations of thermal properties of icy lunar regolith and their influence on phase change interface movement

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Extreme low-temperature freezing process and characteristic curve of icy lunar regolith simulant

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Split-Attention Networks with Self-Calibrated Convolution for Moon Impact Crater Detection from Multi-Source Data

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Lunar thermal mining: Phase change interface movement, production decline and implications for systems engineering

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A Review of Lunar Environment and In-Situ Resource Utilization for Achieving Long-Term Lunar Habitation

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VOILA on the LUVMI-X Rover: Laser-Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy for the Detection of Volatiles at the Lunar South Pole

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The Generation of High-Resolution Mapping Products for the Lunar South Pole Using Photogrammetry and Photoclinometry

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Ice-mining lunar rover using Americium-241 radioisotope power systems

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Assessing the Distribution of Water Ice and Other Volatiles at the Lunar South Pole with LUVMI-X: A Mission Concept

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LUVMI-X: A Versatile Platform for Resource Prospecting on the Moon

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Science-rich Sites for In Situ Resource Utilization Characterization and End-to-end Demonstration Missions

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Enhanced Interactive Rendering for Rovers of Lunar Polar Region and Martian Surface

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Challenges of operating a drilling instrument on a small rover at the lunar poles - LVS-PIE phase A study results

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A review of the development of miniature mass spectrometry for planetary exploration

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A multi-objective multi-factor integrated method for comprehensive luna base site selection

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Soil flow behavior in baffled rotary drum based icy lunar regolith simulant preparation

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Concept of the habitable modular lunar base

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Permittivity sensor development for lunar and planetary surface exploration

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Research Progress of Lunar In-situ Water Production Techniques

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The LUVMI Volatile Sampler and Volatile Analysis Package for In Situ ISRU Applications on the Moon and Other Airless Bodies

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The Lunar Cosmic-Ray and Neutron Spectrometer: Phase-A Design and Technology Studies

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Reaction Study of TC4 Alloy during In-Situ Extraction of Lunar Water

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Thermal prospecting for lunar water with a percussive hot cone penetrometer

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Gas-phase infrared spectroscopy as a reconnaissance tool for the preliminary examination of H2O abundances in icy regolith samples returned from the Moon and beyond

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Study of the influence of drill parameters on the characteristics of a screw conveyor for ice extraction on the Moon

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Characterisation of the LUVMI Lunar Volatiles Scout Instrument

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Extracting Volatile Water from Lunar Regolith with the Lunar Volatiles Scout

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The LUVMI Volatile Sampler and Volatile Analysis Package for In Situ ISRU Applications on the Moon and Other Airless Bodies

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In-Situ thermal Extraction and Analysis of Lunar Volatiles with the Lunar Volatiles Scouting Instrument

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