The lunar orbiter laser altimeter investigation on the lunar reconnaissance orbiter mission

Space Science Reviews

Volumn 150, Issue 1-4, 2010, Pages 209-241

  Smith, David E ^a   Zuber, Maria T ^b   Jackson, Glenn B ^a   Cavanaugh, John F ^a   Neumann, Gregory A ^a   Riris, Haris ^a   Sun, Xiaoli ^a   Zellar, Ronald S ^a   Coltharp, Craig ^a   Connelly, Joseph ^a   Katz, Richard B ^a   Kleyner, Igor ^a   Liiva, Peter ^d   Matuszeski, Adam ^a   Mazarico, Erwan M ^a   McGarry, Jan F ^a   Novo Gradac, Anne Marie ^a   Ott, Melanie N ^a   Peters, Carlton ^a   Ramos Izquierdo, Luis A ^a   Ramsey, Lawrence ^a   Rowlands, David D ^a   Schmidt, Stephen ^a   Scott III, V Stanley ^a   Shaw, George B ^a   Smith, James C ^a   Swinski, Joseph Paul ^a   Torrence, Mark H ^c   Unger, Glenn ^a   Yu, Anthony W ^a   Zagwodzki, Thomas W ^a   more..

^a NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c SGT INC   (United States)

^d SIGMA SPACE CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Moon; Shape; Space instrumentation; Topography

Indexed keywords

GEODETIC GRIDS; LASER ALTIMETER; LUNAR ORBITER; LUNAR RECONNAISSANCE ORBITERS; LUNAR SURFACE; PRECISION ORBIT DETERMINATIONS; PRIMARY OBJECTIVE; SHAPE; SHAPE SPACE; SPACE INSTRUMENTATION;

ANEROID ALTIMETERS; METEOROLOGICAL INSTRUMENTS; NASA; PRECISION ENGINEERING; RADIO ALTIMETERS; SPACECRAFT;

LUNAR MISSIONS;

EID: 77950189330     PISSN: 00386308     EISSN: 15729672     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11214-009-9512-y     Document Type: Article

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