The Moon Mineralogy Mapper (M3) imaging spectrometer for lunar science: Instrument description, calibration, on-orbit measurements, science data calibration and on-orbit validation

Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets

Volumn 116, Issue 10, 2011, Pages

  Green, R O ^a   Pieters, C ^b   Mouroulis, P ^a   Eastwood, M ^a   Boardman, J ^c   Glavich, T ^a   Isaacson, P ^b   Annadurai, M ^d   Besse, S ^e   Barr, D ^a   Buratti, B ^a   Cate, D ^a   Chatterjee, A ^a   Clark, R ^f   Cheek, L ^b   Combe, J ^g   Dhingra, D ^b   Essandoh, V ^a   Geier, S ^a   Goswami, J N ^d   Green, R ^a   Haemmerle, V ^a   Head, J ^b   Hovland, L ^a   Hyman, S ^a   Klima, R ^b,p   Koch, T ^a   Kramer, G ^g,h   Kumar, A S K ^d   Lee, K ^a   Lundeen, S ^a   Malaret, E ⁱ   McCord, T ^g   McLaughlin, S ^e   Mustard, J ^b   Nettles, J ^b   Petro, N ^j   Plourde, K ^a   Racho, C ^a   Rodriquez, J ^a   Runyon, C ^k   Sellar, G ^a   Smith, C ^l   Sobel, H ^a   Staid, M ^m   Sunshine, J ^e   Taylor, L ⁿ   Thaisen, K ⁿ   Tompkins, S ^o   Tseng, H ^a   Vane, G ^a   Varanasi, P ^a   White, M ^a   Wilson, D ^a   more..

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c ANALYTICAL IMAGING AND GEOPHYSICS LLC   (United States)

^d INDIAN SPACE RESEARCH ORGANISATION   (India)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^f U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^g Bear Fight Center   (United States)

^h LUNAR AND PLANETARY INSTITUTE   (United States)

ⁱ Applied Coherent Technology   (United States)

^j NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^k School of Business   (United States)

^l NORTHROP GRUMMAN CORPORATION   (United States)

^m PLANETARY SCIENCE INSTITUTE   (United States)

ⁿ UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

^o DEFENSE ADVANCED RESEARCH PROJECTS AGENCY   (United States)

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

more..

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION; CALIBRATION; DATA SET; MAPPING; MINERALOGY; MOON; SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO; SPECTROMETER;

EID: 79958083288     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011JE003797     Document Type: Article

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