Recent exploration of the Moon: Science from lunar missions since 2006

LR Gaddis, KH Joy, BJ Bussey… - … in Mineralogy and …, 2023 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Exploration of the Moon has been a goal of humankind for millennia, and in recent decades
enormous advances in lunar knowledge have resulted from orbital, landed, robotic, and …

A unified brightness temperature features analysis framework for mapping mare basalt units using Chang'e-2 lunar microwave sounder (CELMS) data

Y Li, Z Yuan, Z Meng, J Ping, Y Zhang - Remote Sensing, 2023 - mdpi.com
The brightness temperature (TB) features extracted from Chang'e-2 Lunar Microwave
Sounder (CELMS) data represent the passive microwave thermal emission (MTE) from the …

A comparative study of iron abundance estimation methods: Application to the western nearside of the Moon

M Bhatt, U Mall, C Woehler, A Grumpe, R Bugiolacchi - Icarus, 2015 - Elsevier
The FeO weight percentage (wt.%) abundance of the Moon's western nearside (55° S–55° N
and 5° E–40° W) is estimated using data from the InfraRed Spectrometer-2 (SIR-2) and the …

Late stage Imbrium volcanism on the Moon: Evidence for two source regions and implications for the thermal history of Mare Imbrium

F Zhang, MH Zhu, YL Zou - Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 2016 - Elsevier
Large open fissures or volcanic rifts can form in volcanic terrain and they are also conduits
for magma ascending through the lunar crust. On the Moon, we investigated two volcanic …

Petrologic characteristics of the lunar surface

X Wang, W Pedrycz - Scientific Reports, 2015 - nature.com
Petrologic analysis of the lunar surface is critical for determining lunar formation and
evolution. Here, we report the first global petrologic map that includes the five most important …

[PDF][PDF] ПЛОЩАДКИ И ПРОБИ, СЛУЖЕЩИ ЗА КАЛИБРИРАНЕ НА ДАННИ ОТ ОПТИЧЕСКИ ДИСТАНЦИОННИ ИЗСЛЕДВАНИЯ НА ЛУНАТА

И Иванов, Л Филчев - space.bas.bg
Хиперспектралните спектрометри предоставят ценна информация за състава и
историята на лунната повърхност, като позволяват нейното подробно дистанционно …

Near infrared reflectance spectrometry in planetary space exploration

U Mall - NIR news, 2016 - journals.sagepub.com
Earth's atmospheric property of transmitting electromagnetic radiation throughout most of the
visible and infrared domain. Long before rockets were launched, scientists successfully …

[PDF][PDF] Comparative Normalisation Analysis (CNA) of the Imbrium region using Near-Infrared data from the SIR-2 instrument

R Bugiolacchi, U Mall - European …, 2013 - meetingorganizer.copernicus.org
Abstract A Comparative Normalisation Analysis (CNA) method takes advantage of the two
main strengths of the SIR-2 instrument: its high spectral resolution and, crucially, the …