Wireless Sensor Networks – A potential tool to probe for water on Moon

A Wireless Sensor Network for in situ probing of lunar water/ice is proposed. The mission scenario in single and multi-tier architectures for probing water in a permanently shadowed region of the Moon and different scenarios of exploration are discussed. The ideas presented in the paper are a positive assertion of feasibility for the sensor node hardware, given current levels of technological advancements.     

基于可通过性的月面巡视探测器路径规划算法

应用于行星探测车的路径规划算法需要根据地形环境信息和车体的越障能力两方面进行考虑。结合月面巡视探测器移动子系统的通过特性以及地形信息将地图栅格进一步细分,使用了四个安全性指标描述车体静止或运动时的通过性,并将其引入到A~*与D~*两种规划算法的代价当中,给出了算法的流程,并通过仿真进行了验证。     

Analytical approach to cosmic ray ionization by nuclei with charge Z in the middle atmosphere – Distribution of galactic CR effects

The effects of galactic and solar cosmic rays (CR) in the middle atmosphere are considered in this work. A new analytical approach for CR ionization by protons and nuclei with charge Z in the lower ionosphere and middle atmosphere is developed in this paper. For this purpose the ionization losses (dE/dh) according to the Bohr–Bethe–Bloch formula for the energetic charged particles are approximated in three different energy intervals. More accurate expressions for energy decrease E(h) and electron production rate profiles q(h) are derived. The obtained formulas allow comparatively easy computer programming. The integrand in q(h) gives the possibility for application of adequate numerical methods – such as Romberg method or Gauss quadrature, for the solution of the mathematical problem. On this way the process of interaction of cosmic ray particles with the upper, middle and lower atmosphere will be described much more realistically. Computations for cosmic ray ionization in the middle atmosphere are made. The full CR composition is taken into account: protons, Helium (α-particles), light L, medium M, heavy H and very heavy VH group of nuclei.     

Mesospheric doppler wind measurements from Aura Microwave Limb Sounder (MLS)

This paper describes a microwave limb technique for measuring Doppler wind in the Earth’s mesosphere. The research algorithm has been applied to Aura Microwave Limb Sounder (MLS) 118.75 GHz measurements where the O₂ Zeeman lines are resolved by a digital autocorrelation spectrometer. A precision of ∼17 m/s for the line-of-sight (LOS) wind is achieved at 80–92 km, which corresponds to radiometric noise during 1/6 s integration time. The LOS winds from Aura MLS are mostly in the meridional direction at low- and mid-latitudes with vertical resolution of ∼8 km. This microwave Doppler technique has potential to obtain useful winds down to ∼40 km of the Earth’s atmosphere if measurements from other MLS frequencies (near H₂O, O₃, and CO lines) are used. Initial analyses show that the MLS winds from the 118.75 GHz measurements agree well with the TIDI (Thermosphere Ionosphere Mesosphere Energetics and Dynamics Doppler Interferometer) winds for the perturbations induced by a strong quasi 2-day wave (QTDW) in January 2005. Time series of MLS winds reveal many interesting climatological and planetary wave features, including the diurnal, semidiurnal tides, and the QTDW. Interactions between the tides and the QTDW are clearly evident, indicating possible large tidal structural changes after the QTDW events dissipate.     

Interstellar planetary protection

In the coming decades the detection of Earth-like extrasolar planets, either apparently lifeless or exhibiting spectral signatures of life, will encourage design studies for craft to visit them. These missions will require the elaboration of an interstellar planetary protection protocol. Given a specific dose required to sterilize microorganisms on a spacecraft, a critical mean velocity can be determined below which a craft becomes self-sterilizing. This velocity is calculated to be below velocities previously projected for interstellar missions, suggesting that an active sterilization protocol prior to launch might be required. Given uncertainties in the surface conditions of a destination extrasolar planet, particularly at microscopic scales, the potential for unknown biochemistries and biologies elsewhere, or the possible inoculation of a lifeless planet that is habitable, then both lander and orbiter interstellar missions should be completely free of all viable organisms, necessitating a planetary protection approach applied to orbiters and landers bound for star systems with unknown local conditions for habitability. I discuss the case of existing craft on interstellar trajectories – Pioneer 10, 11 and Voyager 1 and 2.     

How far is far enough? Requirements derivation for planetary mobility systems

The origination of duration and distance requirements on planetary mobility systems (generally, rovers) are reviewed in detail. It is found that a ‘clean’ flow down from scientific objectives to requirement to capability is rarely presented. Rather, the historical record shows that the capability of emerging designs has been adopted post-hoc as a requirement, simple comparative superiority to predecessor missions has been invoked in competitive situations, or the requirement has been driven by capability of other elements of a mission architecture, such as delivery precision or astronaut life support. These deviations from the idealized systems engineering process have nonetheless resulted in missions that have generally been considered highly successful.     

关于Grothendieck代数的特征标

本文用群表示理论和复向量理论证明了Grothendieck代数的一些性质,特别是关于Grothendieck代数基的描述,即设B为K_G(X)的基,Θ={(θ,ρ)|θ是G在X上的轨道,ρ是G_x的一个不可约表示,x∈θ},其中G_x={g∈G|gx=x},则存在1—1对应f:B→Θ使得对于任意V∈B,f(v)=(θ,ρ):V_y≠0<==>y∈θ,且ρ是G_x在V_x上的一个不可约表示,x∈θ,利用这一性质,本文给出了一个求Grothendieck代数的特征标的方法,从而改进了由Luszrig,G.在文[1]中提出的方法,并且给出二面体群D_n关于其一些子群H的Grotheodieck代数的特征标表。     

航天飞机气动力辅助异面轨道变换

本文研究了以气动力作为辅助动力,实现异面圆轨道的最优变换。以目标轨道面倾角最大为优化性能指标,获得了升力和滚转角的最优控制规律。文中提出了优化问题的一种参数搜寻方法,有利于问题的求解。文末对结果作了分析,讨论,并就有关的多种变换模态作了分析、对比,表明在一定条件下,气动力辅助变换有明显的优越性。     

大气行星波影响低频电波吸收变化的机制

本文根据冬季中低纬低电离层中、低频（ＬＦ）电波振幅扰动与高纬平流层中大气行昨波活动密切相关的观测事实，分析研究了可能引起低电离层对ＬＦ电波吸收变化诸因素的作用后，提出了一种能较好地解释观测现象的物理机制，大气行星波可通过两种方式改变大气离化率ｑ，因而引起低电离层中电子密度Ｎ扰动，进而改变由Ｎ大小决定的电离层电波吸收值，结果导致ＬＦ电波振幅发生相应变化。文中给出了描述这一物理计算公式和某些计算结果。