{"id":2488,"date":"2026-09-04T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-04T03:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.miyamoto-lab.com\/?p=2488"},"modified":"2026-11-10T15:11:37","modified_gmt":"2026-11-10T06:11:37","slug":"lda-operational-concept-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.miyamoto-lab.com\/en\/2026\/09\/04\/lda-operational-concept-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"LDA instrument and operations paper led by Makito Kobayashi accepted in The Planetary Science Journal"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Accepted on 2026-09-04. Published 2026-10-30.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The paper presents the instrument design and operational concept for the Lunar Dielectric Analyzer, to be deployed by astronauts on the Moon. It treats sensor\u2013regolith contact, placement geometry, calibration and illumination as part of the measurement method, supporting the interpretation of dielectric observations in the lunar south polar region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Lunar Dielectric Analyzer (LDA) for the Artemis First Landing Mission: Instrument Design and Operational Concept for In Situ Permittivity Measurements<\/strong><br>Makito Kobayashi, Hideaki Miyamoto, Airi Toida, Yuta Sugihara, Hiroki Aida, Tomohiro Takemura, Yuta Shimizu, Tetsuo Yoshimitsu<br><em>The Planetary Science Journal (2026)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3847\/PSJ\/aeaff9\">Read the paper \u2197<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Accepted on 2026-09-04. Published 2026-10-30. The paper presents the instrument design and operational concept for the Lunar Dielectric Analyzer, to be deployed by astronauts on the Moon. It treats sensor\u2013regolith contact, placement geometry, calibration and illumination as part of the measurement method, supporting the interpretation of dielectric observations in the lunar south polar region. Lunar [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_locale":"en_US","_original_post":"https:\/\/www.miyamoto-lab.com\/?p=2486","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lab-news","en-US"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.miyamoto-lab.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2488","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.miyamoto-lab.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.miyamoto-lab.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.miyamoto-lab.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.miyamoto-lab.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2488"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.miyamoto-lab.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2488\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2489,"href":"https:\/\/www.miyamoto-lab.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2488\/revisions\/2489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.miyamoto-lab.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.miyamoto-lab.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.miyamoto-lab.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}