The Importance of Understanding Surface Roughness for Human Exploration of the Moon: Volatile Mapping and Assessing Surface Trafficability

Elizabeth M Palmer1, Essam Heggy1,2 and Gerald Patterson3, (1)University of Southern California, Electrical Engineering - Electrophysics, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (2)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States, (3)Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Planetary Exploration Group, Laurel, MD, United States