NASA NTRS · 20120002785
Compositional Ground Truth of Diviner Lunar Radiometer Observations
Abstract
The Moon affords us a unique opportunity to "ground truth" thermal infrared (i.e. 3 to 25 micron) observations of an airless body. The Moon is the most accessable member of the most abundant class of solar system bodies, which includes Mercury, astroids, and icy satellites. The Apollo samples returned from the Moon are the only extraterrestrial samples with known spatial context. And the Diviner Lunar Radiometer (Diviner) is the first instrument to globally map the spectral thermal emission of an airless body. Here we compare Diviner observations of Apollo sites to compositional and spectral measurements of Apollo lunar soil samples in simulated lunar environment (SLE).
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Greenhagen, B. T., Thomas, I. R., Bowles, N. E., Allen, C. C., Donaldson Hanna, K. L., Foote, E. J., Paige, D. A.. 2012-01-01. Compositional Ground Truth of Diviner Lunar Radiometer Observations. https://ntrs.nasa.gov/citations/20120002785
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