Observation of the Moon with the Extreme Ultraviolet Scanner on the Mars Orbiter NOZOMI

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May 2001

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American Geophysical Union, Spring Meeting 2001, abstract #P22A-06

Physics

6250 Moon (1221)

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We have developed the eXtreme UltraViolet (XUV) scanner carried on the Japanese first Mars orbiter NOZOMI (Planet-B), which was launched on July 4, 1998. The XUV scanner aims at observing the distribution of helium atoms and ions in the Martian atmosphere by detecting their resonantly scattered lights, i.e., 58.4nm (He I) and 30.4nm (He II), respectively. This study provides the observation of the Moon at wavelengths around 30.4nm with the XUV scanner during the lunar swingby operation of NOZOMI. It was the first attempt to observe from the orbits around the Moon and take an image of albedo at 30.4nm. This observation revealed that there is a regional albedo difference between maria and highlands at 30.4nm. We made a laboratory experiment to examine the observational results with terrestrial rock samples. The experiment revealed that the decrease of reflectance due to the space weathering effect occurs in EUV range. The results of our observation and experiment show that the EUV albedo of solid planets has the information of space weathering effect.

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