“…The European Space Agency (ESA) has instigated a study program to demonstrate key technologies for a robotic lunar South Pole lander scheduled to launch in 2018 [4]. A stated goal is a precise, automated lander to land within 200 m of a target on one of the near constantly illuminated regions near the South Pole [5] where analysis of topographic data estimate the size of the well illuminated landing sites to be in the order of 100's of meters [6]. To prove the technology for such a precise autonomous lander, it is therefore important to exhaustively test the navigation, guidance and hazard avoidance systems.…”