Remote compositional analysis of lunar olivine-rich lithologies with Moon Mineralogy Mapper (M3) spectra

Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets

Volumn 116, Issue 4, 2011, Pages

  Isaacson, Peter J ^a   Pieters, Carle M ^a   Besse, Sebastien ^b   Clark, Roger N ^c   Head, James W ^a   Klima, Rachel L ^d   Mustard, John F ^a   Petro, Noah E ^e   Staid, Matthew I ^f   Sunshine, Jessica M ^b   Taylor, Lawrence A ^g   Thaisen, Kevin G ^g   Tompkins, Stefanie ^h  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Bldg 142   (United States)

^c U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^d JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY APPLIED PHYSICS LABORATORY   (United States)

^e NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^f PLANETARY SCIENCE INSTITUTE   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

^h DEFENSE ADVANCED RESEARCH PROJECTS AGENCY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; GEOLOGICAL MAPPING; LABORATORY METHOD; MINERALOGY; MOON; OLIVINE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REMOTE SENSING; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 79955488932     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010JE003731     Document Type: Article

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