Data analysis and interpretation of lunar dust exosphere

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Dec 1992

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1992asee....1.....a&link_type=abstract

In NASA. Johnson Space Center, National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)/American Society for Engineering Education (

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

Exosphere, Lunar Dust, Lunar Surface, Rayleigh Scattering, Horizon, Luminescence, Sunlight, Telescopes

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The lunar horizon glow observed by Apollo astronauts and captured on film during the Surveyor mission is believed to result from the scattering of sunlight off lunar fines suspended in a dust layer over the lunar surface. For scale heights on the order of tens of kilometers, it is anticipated that the size of the dust particles will be small enough to admit Rayleigh scattering. Such events would result in scattered light which is polarized to a degree which is a function of observation angle and produce spectra containing large high frequency components ('bluing'). Believing these signatures to be observable from ground based telescopes, observational data has been collected from McDonald Observatory and the task of reduction and analysis of this data is the focus of the present report.

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