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Mineralogy of the lunar crust in spatial context: first results from the moon mineralogy mapper (m3)
| Content Provider | NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) |
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| Author | Staid, M. I. Taylor, L. Tompkins, S. Boardman, J. Combe, J-P Klima, R. Head II, J. W. Kramer, G. Buratti, B. Petro, N. Mustard, J. Lundeen, S. Varanasi, P. Hicks, M. Kumar, S. Goswami, J. N. Runyon, C. Green, R. Clark, R. McCord, T. B. Nettles, J. Malaret, E. Pieters, C. M. Isaacson, P. Sunshine, J. |
| Copyright Year | 2009 |
| Description | India's Chandrayaan-1 successfully launched October 22, 2008 and went into lunar orbit a few weeks later. Commissioning of instruments began in late November and was near complete by the end of the year. Initial data for NASA's Moon Mineralogy Mapper (M3) were acquired across the Orientale Basin and the science results are discussed here. M 3 image-cube data provide mineralogy of the surface in geologic context. A major new result is that the existence and distribution of massive amounts of anorthosite as a continuous stratigraphic crustal layer is now irrefutable. |
| File Size | 2000469 |
| Page Count | 2 |
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| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://archive.org/details/NASA_NTRS_Archive_20090025889 |
| Archival Resource Key | ark:/13960/t6159k71j |
| Language | English |
| Publisher Date | 2009-03-09 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Lunar And Planetary Science And Exploration Mountains Lunar Maria Structural Basins Lunar Crust Moon Thematic Mapping Mineralogy Lunar Orbits Stratigraphy Spectral Reflectance India Ntrs Nasa Technical Reports Server (ntrs) Nasa Technical Reports Server Aerodynamics Aircraft Aerospace Engineering Aerospace Aeronautic Space Science |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
