Lunar soil characterization consortium analyses: Pyroxene and maturity estimates derived from Clementine image data

Icarus

Volumn 184, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 83-101

  Pieters, Carle ^a   Shkuratov, Yuriy ^b   Kaydash, Vadim ^b   Stankevich, Dmitriy ^b   Taylor, Lawrence ^c  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b V N KARAZIN KHARKIV NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Ukraine)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

Author keywords

Mineralogy; Moon; Spectroscopy; surface

Indexed keywords

EID: 33747153305     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: 10902643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2006.04.013     Document Type: Article

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