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Mineralogy of the Lunar Crust in Spatial Context: First Results from the Moon Mineralogy Mapper (M3)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.
Document ID
20090025889
Acquisition Source
Marshall Space Flight Center
Document Type
Conference Paper
Authors
Pieters, C. M. (Brown Univ. Providence, RI, United States)
Boardman, J. (Analytical Imaging and Geophysics, LLC Boulder, CO, United States)
Buratti, B. (Jet Propulsion Lab., California Inst. of Tech. Pasadena, CA, United States)
Clark, R. (Geological Survey Denver, CO, United States)
Combe, J-P (Bear Flight Center WA, United States)
Green, R. (Jet Propulsion Lab., California Inst. of Tech. Pasadena, CA, United States)
Goswami, J. N. (Indian Space Research Organization India)
Head, J. W., III (Brown Univ. Providence, RI, United States)
Hicks, M. (Jet Propulsion Lab., California Inst. of Tech. Pasadena, CA, United States)
Isaacson, P. (Brown Univ. Providence, RI, United States)
Klima, R. (Brown Univ. Providence, RI, United States)
Kramer, G. (Bear Flight Center WA, United States)
Kumar, S. (Indian Space Research Organization India)
Lundeen, S. (Jet Propulsion Lab., California Inst. of Tech. Pasadena, CA, United States)
Malaret, E. (Applied Coherent Technology Corp. Herndon, VA, United States)
McCord, T. B. (Bear Flight Center WA, United States)
Mustard, J. (Brown Univ. Providence, RI, United States)
Nettles, J. (Brown Univ. Providence, RI, United States)
Petro, N. (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Greenbelt, MD, United States)
Runyon, C. (Charleston Coll. Charleston, SC, United States)
Staid, M. I. (Planetary Science Inst. Tucson, AZ, United States)
Sunshine, J. (Maryland Univ. MD, United States)
Taylor, L. (Tennessee Univ. TN, United States)
Tompkins, S. (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency Arlington, VA, United States)
Varanasi, P. (Jet Propulsion Lab., California Inst. of Tech. Pasadena, CA, United States)
Date Acquired
August 24, 2013
Publication Date
March 9, 2009
Subject Category
Lunar And Planetary Science And Exploration
Report/Patent Number
M09-0357
Meeting Information
Meeting: Chandrayaan-1 Science Team Meeting
Location: Bangalore
Country: India
Start Date: March 9, 2009
End Date: March 11, 2009
Funding Number(s)
CONTRACT_GRANT: NNM05AB26C
Distribution Limits
Public
Copyright
Public Use Permitted.

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