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SHOEMAKER CRATER – GOING WHERE WE CAN “SEE” Carlton Allen NASA JSC

Recommended impact site for LCROSS: SHOEMAKER CRATER This 51-km diameter crater centered at 88.1 S, 45 E is in permanent shadow Half of its floor can be imaged by Earth-base radar This degree of target knowledge will strongly constrain impact models and significantly increase the confidence of data interpretation.

Lunar Orbiter IV and Clementine images of Shoemaker show that the rim is partially illuminated by sunlight, but the crater floor remains dark. Clementine mosaic

Radar interferometry digital elevation model (DEM) 150 m spatial resolution and 50 m height resolution Radar DEM

Radar DEM, combined with ray tracing, highlights five craters in which a portion or all of each floor is in permanent shadow. Radar DEM

Intact rim with numerous km superimposed craters; ejecta blanked is totally subdued More degraded than Shackleton, but less degraded than other craters in the region Radar DEM

Crater floor diameter is approximately 20 km Floor is flat and partially smooth, with scattered impact craters Crater is simple in plan, with no evidence of a central peak Radar DEM

Thermal and epithermal neutron counts measured by Lunar Prospector suggest concentrations of near- surface ice.

Radar beams with wavelengths of 2.5, 12.6, and 70 cm have returned echoes that are typical of highland terrain, without the strong echoes attributable to ice.

In 1999 Lunar Prospector was deliberately crashed into Shoemaker crater. Earth-based sensors detected no ejecta plume. LCROSS will impact the Moon with ~200 x more kinetic energy, and the impact will be observed by from lunar orbit as well as from Earth.

Many targets meet the LCROSS criteria:  nearside  permanently shadowed  poleward of 70 degrees latitude  large enough to contain a 10 km landing ellipse The actual material to be impacted in most of these candidates is unknown.

Shoemaker crater is unique among possible targets – half of the floor has been imaged by radar. The physical properties of the floor material can be modeled. This target is known to be flat, providing simple geometry for understanding impact dynamics and the ejecta plume.

Importance of imaging the target area in a spacecraft impact experiment was demonstrated by the Deep Impact mission to Comet Temple 1. Close-up images of the impact point, revealing layered target material, strongly constrained the comet model.

Shoemaker is large enough to cover a substantial portion of a Lunar Prospector neutron detector pixel, and so contributes directly to that ice “detection”. Half of the floor is within sight of Earth-based radar and was probed as part of the null ice “detection” by that technique Shoemaker crater provides a unique opportunity to test the seemingly-contradictory neutron and radar results concerning near-surface ice.

LCROSS impact into Shoemaker will directly test these two results at the same location, and should significantly improve our understanding of lunar ice.