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The Benefits of Sample Return: Connecting Apollo Soils and Diviner Lunar Radiometer Remote Sensing DataThe Diviner Lunar Radiometer, onboard NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, has produced the first global, high resolution, thermal infrared observations of an airless body. The Moon, which is the most accessible member of this most abundant class of solar system objects, is also the only body for which we have extraterrestrial samples with known spatial context. Here we present the results of a comprehensive study to reproduce an accurate simulated lunar environment, evaluate the most appropriate sample and measurement conditions, collect thermal infrared spectra of a representative suite of Apollo soils, and correlate them with Diviner observations of the lunar surface. We find that analyses of Diviner observations of individual sampling stations and SLE measurements of returned Apollo soils show good agreement, while comparisons to thermal infrared reflectance under terrestrial conditions do not agree well, which underscores the need for SLE measurements and validates the Diviner compositional dataset. Future work includes measurement of additional soils in SLE and cross comparisons with measurements in JPL Simulated Airless Body Emission Laboratory (SABEL).
Document ID
20140013137
Acquisition Source
Johnson Space Center
Document Type
Conference Paper
Authors
Greenhagen, B. T.
(Jet Propulsion Lab., California Inst. of Tech. Pasadena, CA, United States)
Donaldson-Hanna, K. L.
(Oxford Univ. Oxford, United Kingdom)
Thomas, I. R.
(NASA Johnson Space Center Houston, TX, United States)
Bowles, N. E.
(Oxford Univ. Oxford, United Kingdom)
Allen, C. C.
(NASA Johnson Space Center Houston, TX, United States)
Pieters, C. M.
(Brown Univ. Providence, RI, United States)
Paige, D. A.
(California Univ. Los Angeles, CA, United States)
Date Acquired
October 22, 2014
Publication Date
October 22, 2014
Subject Category
Lunar And Planetary Science And Exploration
Report/Patent Number
JSC-CN-32094
Meeting Information
Meeting: Annual Meeting of the Lunar Exploration Analysis Group 2014
Location: Laurel, MD
Country: United States
Start Date: October 22, 2014
End Date: October 24, 2014
Sponsors: Lunar Exploration Analysis Group
Distribution Limits
Public
Copyright
Public Use Permitted.
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