The Los Alamos neutron spectrometer for the Lunar Scout-1 mission

Details The Los Alamos neutron spectrometer for the Lunar Scout-1 mission The Los Alamos neutron spectrometer for the Lunar Scout-1 mission

Mar 1993

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1993lpi....24...49a&link_type=abstract

In Lunar and Planetary Inst., Twenty-fourth Lunar and Planetary Science Conference. Part 1: A-F p 49-50 (SEE N94-12015 01-91)

Computer Science

Lunar Exploration, Lunar Spacecraft, Neutron Spectrometers, Spacecraft Instruments, Fast Neutrons, Lunar Composition, Lunar Maps, Lunar Surface, Planetary Gravitation, Thermal Neutrons, Topography

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We review the current status of the Los Alamos program to develop a neutron spectrometer for the Lunar Scout-1 mission, which is the first of two such missions to obtain global compositional, gravity, topography, and image maps of the lunar surface during nominal one-year missions. The neutron spectrometer will measure fast and slow (epithermal and thermal) neutrons in the ranges of 0.5 MeV to 25 MeV and 0.01 eV to more than 1 keV, respectively. The neutron spectrometer will consist of two independent instruments, a fast-neutron one, and a thermal and epithermal one. The measured neutron fluxes are very sensitive to hydrogen in the top meter of the lunar surface and provide additional information about lunar composition.

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