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.


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    Titel :

    Mineralogy of the Lunar Crust in Spatial Context: First Results from the Moon Mineralogy Mapper (M3)


    Beteiligte:
    Pieters, C. M. (Autor:in) / Boardman, J. (Autor:in) / Buratti, B. (Autor:in) / Clark, R. (Autor:in) / Combe, J-P (Autor:in) / Green, R. (Autor:in) / Goswami, J. N. (Autor:in) / Head, J. W., III (Autor:in) / Hicks, M. (Autor:in) / Isaacson, P. (Autor:in)

    Kongress:

    Chandrayaan-1 Science Team Meeting ; 2009 ; Bangalore, India


    Erscheinungsdatum :

    2009-03-09


    Medientyp :

    Aufsatz (Konferenz)


    Format :

    Keine Angabe


    Sprache :

    Englisch




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