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Lunar Trailblazer Solar Array deploying at Lockheed Martin.

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Animation explaining how HVM³ will find water on the Moon.

Credit: Emily Felder for Lunar Trailblazer

Lunar Trailblazer Principal Investigator Bethany Ehlmann presents sold-out keynote at the Dark Sky Festival in Death Valley, March 2024.

Credit: National Park Service/S. Lamar

Graduate student and Lunar Trailblazer Science Team member Erin Pimentel explains lunar scienc at the Lunar Trailblazer Watson Lecture, January 2024.

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Lunar Trailblazer Principal Investigator Bethany Ehlmann (left) with two Trailblazer SciComm alumni, Sara Pooley (center) and Emily Felder (right) at the Lunar Trailblazer Watson Lecture, January 2024.

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Lunar Trailblazer SciComm alumni Sara Pooley (left) and Emily Felder (right) talk about lunar science at the Lunar Trailblazer Watson Lecture, January 2024.

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Move from high bay to vibe facility, January 2024.

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Move to vibration table, January 2024.

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On the vibration table, January 2024.

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Lunar Trailblazer ready to roll for a spin test.

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Lunar Trailblazer ATLO (Assembly, Test, and Launch Operations) team with a solar panel at Lockheed Martin.

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NASA’s Lunar Trailblazer sits in a clean room at Lockheed Martin Space in Littleton, Colorado, shortly after being integrated with its second and final science instrument, the Lunar Thermal Mapper. Green tape on the spacecraft will be removed before launch.

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Lunar Trailblazer in a clean room at Lockheed Martin. HVM³ sits on top, while LTM is encased in black on front.

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Lunar Trailblazer in a clean room at Lockheed Martin. The right side of the spacecraft is visible, where one of the solar panel arrays will attach.

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Lunar Trailblazer in a clean room at Lockheed Martin. The back of the spacecraft is visible.

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Lunar Trailblazer in a clean room at Lockheed Martin.

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Infographic of Lunar Trailblazer Data Collection.

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Lunar Trailblazer in Thermal Vacuum Chamber (TVAC) Testing.

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LTM wrapped in a multilayer insulation blanket.

Credit: University of Oxford for Lunar Trailblazer

LTM mounted in the test calibration and vacuum chamber at the University of Oxford.

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The HVM³ instrument sits in a JPL clean room in early December 2022.

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Lockheed Martin engineers installing NASA JPL’s High-resolution Volatiles and Minerals Moon Mapper (HVM3).

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The side of the High-resolution Volatiles and Minerals Moon Mapper (HVM³) is seen as the instrument gets unwrapped in a clean room.

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Engineers work on the JPL-developed High-resolution Volatiles and Minerals Moon Mapper (HVM³) for NASA's Lunar Trailblazer spacecraft in a clean room at Lockheed Martin Space in Littleton, Colorado, in December 2022.

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The sun-facing side of the solar panel array.

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The back side of the solar panel array.

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Lunar Trailblazer spacecraft in ATLO (Assembly, Test, and Launch Operations).

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Lunar Trailblazer spacecraft assembly begins at Lockheed Martin Space.

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NASA JPL’s High-Resolution Volatiles and Minerals Moon Mapper (HVM3) sits at Lockheed Martin’s Littleton, Colorado, facility ahead of its install on Lunar Trailblazer.
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Infographic of the Lunar Water Cycle.

Credit: Sara Pooley for Lunar Trailblazer

The Lunar Thermal Mapper instrument under construction at the University of Oxford, August 16th, 2022.

Credit: University of Oxford

Several members of the Trailblazer team surrounding HVM³, minus its radiator and electronics, mounted on the optical bench assembly while undergoing cold alignment, July 8th, 2022.

Credit: NASA/JPL

The High-Resolution Volatiles and Minerals Moon Mapper (HVM³) instrument to be carried aboard NASA's Lunar Trailblazer, July 8th, 2022.

Credit: NASA/JPL

The most updated computed-aided design model of the Lunar Trailblazer spacecraft configuration.

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A computed-aided design model of the Lunar Trailblazer spacecraft configuration.

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University of Oxford graduate student, Lunar Thermal Mapper collaborator, and now master pumpkin artist Rory Evans carves a Moon from a pumpkin featuring Lunar Trailblazer.

Credit: Rory Evans

A computed-aided design model of the Lunar Trailblazer spacecraft configuration showing the fields-of-view of Lunar Trailblazer’s HVM³ and LTM looking nadir toward the Moon as well as LTM’s spaceview for calibration.

Credit: Lockheed Martin Space for Lunar Trailblazer

Process journal for the water ice in the Moon's permanently shadowed regions graphic.

Credit: Hongyu Cui for Lunar Trailblazer

Animation indicating the effect of temperature on infrared spectra.

Credit: Emily Felder for Lunar Trailblazer

Artist's rendering of water ice in the Moon's permanently shadowed regions.

Credit: Caltech/PCC/Hongyu Cui for Lunar Trailblazer

Map of water and hydroxyl (in blue and violet) across the surface of the moon, from the Moon Mineralogy Mapper (M³).

Credit: ISRO/NASA/JPL-Caltech/Brown Univ./USGS

Poster of Lunar Trailblazer exploring the permanently shadowed regions of the Moon.

Credit: Jasper Miura, Lockheed Martin

Illustration of the High-resolution Volatiles and Minerals Moon Mapper instrument aboard Lunar Trailblazer.

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

Illustration of the Lunar Thermal Mapper instrument aboard Lunar Trailblazer.

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Lunar Trailblazer's mission patch.

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