The 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).


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    Titel :

    The Benefits of Sample Return: Connecting Apollo Soils and Diviner Lunar Radiometer Remote Sensing Data


    Beteiligte:
    Greenhagen, B. T. (Autor:in) / Donaldson-Hanna, K. L. (Autor:in) / Thomas, I. R. (Autor:in) / Bowles, N. E. (Autor:in) / Allen, C. C. (Autor:in) / Pieters, C. M. (Autor:in) / Paige, D. A. (Autor:in)

    Kongress:

    Annual Meeting of the Lunar Exploration Analysis Group 2014 ; 2014 ; Laurel, MD, United States


    Erscheinungsdatum :

    2014-10-22


    Medientyp :

    Aufsatz (Konferenz)


    Format :

    Keine Angabe


    Sprache :

    Englisch




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