Compositional Ground Truth of Diviner Lunar Radiometer ObservationsThe 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).
Document ID
20120002785
Acquisition Source
Johnson Space Center
Document Type
Conference Paper
Authors
Greenhagen, B. T. (Jet Propulsion Lab., California Inst. of Tech. Pasadena, CA, United States)
Thomas, I. R. (Oxford Univ. Oxford, United Kingdom)
Bowles, N. E. (Oxford Univ. Oxford, United Kingdom)
Allen, C. C. (NASA Johnson Space Center Houston, TX, United States)
Donaldson Hanna, K. L. (Brown Univ. Providence, RI, United States)
Foote, E. J. (California Univ. Los Angeles, CA, United States)
Paige, D. A. (California Univ. Los Angeles, CA, United States)
Date Acquired
August 25, 2013
Publication Date
January 1, 2012
Subject Category
Lunar And Planetary Science And Exploration
Report/Patent Number
JSC-CN-25788
Meeting Information
Meeting: 43rd Lunar and Planetary Science Conference