Lunar reconnaissance orbiter camera (LROC) instrument overview

Space Science Reviews

Volumn 150, Issue 1-4, 2010, Pages 81-124

  Robinson, M S ^a   Brylow, S M ^b   Tschimmel, M ^a   Humm, D ^c   Lawrence, S J ^a   Thomas, P C ^d   Denevi, B W ^a   Bowman Cisneros, E ^a   Zerr, J ^b   Ravine, M A ^b   Caplinger, M A ^b   Ghaemi, F T ^g   Schaffner, J A ^b   Malin, M C ^b   Mahanti, P ^a   Bartels, A ^e   Anderson, J ^f   Tran, T N ^a   Eliason, E M ^h   McEwen, A S ^h   Turtle, E ⁱ   Jolliff, B L ^j   Hiesinger, H ^k   more..

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MALIN SPACE SCIENCE SYSTEMS   (United States)

^c Space Instrument Calibration Consulting ^*  (United States)

^d Cornell University ^*  (United States)

^e NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^f U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^g Tony Ghaemi Optical Engineering   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

ⁱ JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^j WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^k UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

more..

Author keywords

Calibration; Camera; Instrument; LRO; LROC; Lunar; Moon

Indexed keywords

BASE MAP; HUMAN EXPLORATION; IMAGERS; LANDING SITE; LINESCAN; LRO; LUNAR RECONNAISSANCE ORBITERS; MULTISPECTRAL IMAGING; POLAR REGIONS; WIDE ANGLE CAMERAS;

CALIBRATION; LUNAR MISSIONS; NASA;

CAMERAS;

EID: 77950189336     PISSN: 00386308     EISSN: 15729672     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11214-010-9634-2     Document Type: Article

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