Meet the editor

Dr. Yann H. Chemin's research spans geography, cartography, energy balance, agriculture, land and water processes, and more recently rocky (minor) planets and the moon. His credentials are a BSc in International Agri-Development (1995, France), an MSc in Land and Water Resources Management (1996, UK), a DTSc in RS/GIS Applications (2006, Thailand), and a BSc in Planetary Sciences with Astronomy (2016, UK). He worked on

the Chandrayaan-1 M3 sensor and its hyperspectral applications on the Apollo 12 landing site. Most recently, he also worked on Ceres craters. As of May 16, 2019, he is joining the JRC, Italy.

Contents

**Section 1**

**Section 2**

**Section 3**

Lunar Occultation *by Abdulrahman Malawi*

Lunar Base Issues *by Bryan Palaszewski*

*by Yann H. Chemin*

*by Khachay Yuriy*

Initial Evolution of the Moon

Off the Shape of the Moon *by Boris P. Kondratyev*

*by Olga Hachay and Oleg Khachay*

**Preface III**

Introduction **1**

**Chapter 1 3**

Early and Inner Moon **7**

**Chapter 2 9**

**Chapter 3 21**

**Chapter 4 41**

Lunar Surface and Humans **61**

**Chapter 5 63**

**Chapter 6 75**

Solar System Exploration Augmented by In Situ Resource Utilization:

Introductory Chapter: A Tipping Point for a Return to the Moon

On the Deviation of the Lunar Center of Mass to the East: Two Possible Mechanisms Based on Evolution of the Orbit and Rounding

New Principles of Monitoring Seismological and Deformation

Processes Occurring in the Moon Rock Massive

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## **Chapter 7 97**

Human Health in the Lunar Environment *by Robert J. Reynolds*

Preface

Lunar science is in the middle of a small revolution, with now many new countries sending orbiters, landers, and even sample return missions to the moon. Additionally, both governments and private companies are now more and more considering the moon as a base for solar system exploration. With such an increase in attention, lunar science is now encompassing several unified dimensions.

The first is reflected in the section "Early and Inner Moon," which is the science of the moon itself, its initial evolution, its mass center deviation, and methodologies

The second is discussed in the section "Lunar Surface and Humans," which looks at how humans can live on the moon, a certainly different perspective to common lunar science. This is a more practical direction that fits a single goal: facilitating or simply enabling the survival of human beings on the surface of the moon for a time period superior to the short-term visits of the Apollo era. To reach that goal, scientific fields of study covering biology and in general the logistics of surviving there are counted, including in-situ resource utilization and the more traditional

**Yann H. Chemin**

JRC, Italy

for assessing deformation processes in its deeper layers.

field of surface mapping.
