Analysis of microwave brightness temperature of lunar surface and inversion of regolith layer thickness: Primary results of Chang-E 1 multi-channel radiometer observation

Science in China, Series F: Information Sciences

Volumn 53, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 168-181

  Fa, WenZhe ^a   Jin, YaQiu ^a  

^a FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Apollo landing site; Chang E 1; Inversion of regolith layer thickness; Multi channel brightness temperature; Physical temperature

Indexed keywords

EID: 76149139434     PISSN: 10092757     EISSN: 18622836     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11432-010-0020-1     Document Type: Article

References (20)

1. McKay D, Heiken G, Basu A, et al. The lunar regolith. In: Heiken G H, Vaniman D T, French B M, eds. Lunar Source-Book: A User's Guide to the Moon. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1991. 285-356.
2. Shkuratov Y G, Bondarenko N V. Regolith layer thickness mapping of the Moon by radar and optical data. Icarus, 2001, 149: 329-338.
3. Fa W, Jin Y Q. Simulation of brightness temperature from lunar surface and inversion of regolith layer thickness. J Geophys Res, 2007a, 112: E05003, doi: 10. 1029/2006JE002751.
4. Fa W, Jin Y Q. Quantitative estimation of helium-3 spatial distribution in the lunar regolith layer. Icarus, 2007b, 190: 15-23.
5. Nakamura Y, Dorman J, Duennebier F, et al. Shallow lunar structure determined from the passive seismic experiment. Moon, 1975, 13: 3-15.
6. Strangway D, Pearce G, Olhoeft G. Magnetic and dielectric properties of lunar samples, In: Vinogradov A P, ed. Kosmochimiya Luny i Planet (in Russian). Nauka, Moscow, 1975. 712-728.
7. Quaide W L, Oberbeck V R. Thickness determinations of the lunar surface layer from lunar impact craters. J Geophys Res, 1968, 73: 5247-5270.
8. Shoemaker E M, Baston R M, Holt H E, et al. Observations of the lunar regolith and the Earth from the television camera on Surveyor 7. J Geophys Res, 1969, 74: 6081-6119.
9. Jiang J S. Microwave Moon (in Chinese). Sci China Ser D-Earth Sci, 2009, 39: 1028.
10. Jin Y Q, Yan F, Liang Z. Simulation of brightness temperature from the Lunar surface using multi-channels microwave radiometers. Chinese J Radio Sci, 18: 477-486.
11. Keihm S J, Gary B L. Comparison of theoretical and observed λ3. 55 cm wavelength brightness temperature maps of the full moon. Proc Lunar Sci Conf, 1979, 10: 2311-2319.
12. Lucey P G, Blewett D T, Jolliff B L. Lunar iron and titanium abundance algorithms based on final processing of Clementine ultraviolet-visible images. J Geophys Res, 2000, 105: 20297-20305.
13. Zhang H, Zhang X, Yang J. The analysis of affections to the cold space calibration source of Chang-E 1 payload microwave detector. Adv Space Res, 2008, 42: 350-357.
14. Heiken G H, Vaniman D T, French B M. Lunar Source-Book: A User's Guide to the Moon. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1991.
15. Shkuratov Y G, Kaydash V G, Bondarenko N V. Iron and titanium abundance and maturity degree distribution on the lunar nearside. Icarus, 1999, 137: 235-246.
16. Hagfor T. Backscattering from an undulating surface with application to radar returns from the Moon. J Geophys Res, 1964, 97: 13319-13346.
17. Lawrence D J, Feldman W C, Elphic R C, et al. Iron abundances on the lunar surface as measured by the Lunar prospector gamma-ray and neutron spectrometers. J Geophys Res, 2002, 107: 5130, doi: 10. 1029/2001JE001530.
18. Shkuratov Y G, Kaydash V G, Stankevich D G, et al. Derivation of elemental abundance maps at intermediate resolution from optical interpolation of lunar prospector gamma-ray spectrometer data. Planetary Space Sci, 2005, 53: 1287-1301.
19. Vasavada A R, Paige D A, Wood S E. Near-surface temperature on Mercury and the Moon and the stability of polar ice deposits. Icarus, 1999, 141: 179-193.
20. Lawson S L, Jakosky B M, Park H S, et al. Brightness temperatures of the lunar surface: Calibration and global analysis of the Clementine long-wave infrared camera data. J Geophys Res, 2000, 105: 4273-4290.