Lunar surface dielectric constant, regolith thickness, and 3He abundance distributions retrieved from the microwave brightness temperatures of CE-1 Lunar Microwave Sounder

Science China Earth Sciences

Volumn 53, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 1365-1378

  Wang, Zhen Zhan ^a   Li, Yun ^a,b   Jiang, Jing Shan ^a   Li, Di Hui ^a  

^a CENTER FOR SPACE SCIENCE AND APPLIED RESEARCH   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

3He; CE 1 Lunar Microwave Sounder (CELMS); dielectric constant; lunar regolith; lunar regolith thickness; retrieval

Indexed keywords

3HE; CE-1 LUNAR MICROWAVE SOUNDER (CELMS); DIELECTRIC CONSTANTS; LUNAR REGOLITH; RETRIEVAL;

LUNAR SURFACE ANALYSIS; MICROWAVE ACOUSTIC DEVICES; MICROWAVE MEASUREMENT; PERMITTIVITY; RADIOMETERS; RADIOMETRY; SOUNDING APPARATUS; TEMPERATURE;

MICROWAVES;

ALGORITHM; BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURE; DIELECTRIC PROPERTY; HELIUM; MICROWAVE RADIOMETER; MOON; REGOLITH;

EID: 77956870882     PISSN: 16747313     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11430-010-4022-z     Document Type: Article

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