Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astronomy
Scientific paper
Dec 1993
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1993asee....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
Charge Coupled Devices, Exosphere, Fines, Luminescence, Lunar Dust, Rayleigh Scattering, Scale Height, Telescopes, Astronauts, Astronomical Observatories, Lunar Surface, Particle Size Distribution, Sunlight
Scientific paper
The lunar horizon glow observed by Apollo astronauts and recorded during the Surveyor missions is believed to result from the scattering of sunlight off lunar fines suspended in a dust layer above the lunar surface. For scale heights of tens of kilometers, theory and astronaut's observations suggest that the size of the dust particles will be smaller than 0.1 microns in radius and will act as Rayleigh scatters. This means that the dust scattered light will be 100 percent polarized at a 90 degree scattering angle and will depend on wavelength to the inverse fourth power ('bluing'). Believing these signatures to be observable from ground based telescopes, observational data in the form of CCD images has been collected from McDonald Observatory's 36 in. telescope, and the reduction and analysis of this data is the focus of the present report.
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