Thermal infrared spectra of the Moon

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May 1995

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1995icar..115..181s&link_type=abstract

Icarus (ISSN 0019-1035), vol. 115, no. 1, p. 181-190

Computer Science

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Atmospheric Correction, Infrared Spectra, Lunar Environment, Lunar Rocks, Selenography, Balloon-Borne Instruments, Data Correlation, Emission Spectra, Error Analysis, Lunar Soil

Scientific paper

Contrary to recent assertions in the literature, lunar emission spectra obtained at an altitude of 32 km with a balloon-borne telescope are virtually undistorted by atmospheric absorption, except in the ozone region. These spectra have been found to correlate closely with laboratory emission spectra of returned lunar samples measured in a simulated lunar environment. Thus, lunar spectra obtained with the balloon-borne telescope system are the standards against which groundbased spectral measurements of the Moon should be compared. Comparison of balloon-borne measurements with recent groundbased spectral measurements suggests that the latter suffer from some source of systematic error. When high-quality lunar spectra are available, they will be best interpreted by comparison with returned lunar samples, rather than terrestrial minerals or rocks, because of subtle spectral differences between lunar and terrestrial minerals perhaps associated with incipient alteration of the latter.

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