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A lunar reconnaissance drone for cooperative exploration and high-resolution mapping of extreme locations
David Rodriguez Martinez, Daniel Tataru, Erik Uythoven, Thomas Pfeiffer
An efficient characterization of scientifically significant locations is essential prior to the return of humans to the Moon. The highest resolution imagery acquired from orbit of south-polar shadowed regions and other relevant locations remains, at best, ...
Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd2024Well-Defined Ti Surface Sites in Ziegler-Natta Pre-Catalysts from 47/49Ti Solid-State Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy
Treatment of Ziegler-Natta (ZN) catalysts with BCl3 improves their activity by increasing the number of active sites. Here we show how Ti-47/49 solid-state nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy enables us to understand the electronic structure of t ...
Washington2024Detecting Anomalies and Obstacles in Road Scenes
We address the problem of segmenting anomalies and unusual obstacles in road scenes for the purpose of self-driving safety.The objects in question are not present in the common training sets as it is not feasible to collect and annotate examples for every ...
EPFL2023espm: A Python library for the simulation of STEM-EDXS datasets
Cécile Hébert, Duncan Thomas Lindsay Alexander, Nathanaël Perraudin, Hui Chen
We present two open-source Python packages: "electron spectro-microscopy"(espm) and "electron microscopy tables"(emtables). The espm software enables the simulation of scanning transmission electron microscopy energy-dispersive X-ray spectroscopy datacubes ...
ELSEVIER2023Preliminary Design of a Lunar Reconnaissance Drone
Erik Uythoven, Thomas Pfeiffer
In this report, a preliminary design study of a compact lunar reconnaissance drone module which will assist exploration rovers is presented. It is designed to assist future exploratory rover missions in difficult environments such as PSRs or extreme topogr ...
2022Investigating Magma Ocean Solidification on Earth Through Laser‐Heated Diamond Anvil Cell Experiments
Philippe Gillet, Cécile Hébert, Marco Cantoni, James Badro, Farhang Nabiei, Charles-Edouard Boukaré
We carried out a series of silicate fractional crystallization experiments at lower mantle pressures using the laser-heated diamond anvil cell. Phase relations and the compositional evolution of the cotectic melt and equilibrium solids along the liquid lin ...
2021Evidence of extensive lunar crust formation in impact melt sheets 4,330 Myr ago
Accurately constraining the formation and evolution of the lunar magnesian suite is key to understanding the earliest periods of magmatic crustal building that followed accretion and primordial differentiation of the Moon. However, the origin and evolution ...
2020Taking the pulse of volcanic eruptions using plagioclase glomerocrysts
Anders Meibom, Stéphane Laurent Escrig, Anders McCarthy, Pierre Vonlanthen
Crystallization timescales in subvolcanic systems and the consequences of interaction between ascending magmas and gases remain largely unconstrained, as do links between these processes and monitoring signals at restless volcanoes. We apply diffusion chro ...
ELSEVIER2020Pore space properties in carbonate fault rocks of peninsular Italy
The fault cores of extensional faults in Mesozoic limestones and dolostones are examined by mean of combined microstructural, ultrasonic and petrophysical analyses. Grain-supported fault rocks commonly localize in the outer fault cores, whereas matrix-supp ...
2019Phyllomanganate vein-infillings in faulted and Al-poor regoliths of the New Caledonian ophiolite: periodic and sequential crystallization of Ni-asbolane, Alk-birnessite and H-birnessite
Mineralogy, chemistry and spatial distribution of phyllomanganates, found in abundance at the bottom of thick Ni-laterite deposits, were established on dislocated vein-infillings showing banded and fibrous patterns (i.e. colloforms with rows of tiny boxwor ...
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