Automated Spectral System for Terrain Classification, Mineralogy of Vesta from the Dawn Framing Cameras

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The Dawn mission will rendezvous with asteroid (4) Vesta in July 2011. We have developed a set of equations for extracting mean pyroxene chemistry (Ferrosilite and Wollastonite) for classifying terrains on Vesta by using the Dawn Framing Camera (FC) multi-color bands. The Automated Spectral System (ASS) utilizes pseudo-Band I minima to estimate the mean pyroxene chemistry of diogenites, and basaltic eucrites. The mean pyroxene chemistries of cumulate eucrites, and howardites overlap each other on the pyroxene quadrilateral and hence are harder to distinguish. We expect our ASS to carry a bulk of the terrain classification and mineralogy workload utilizing these equations and complement the work of DawnKey (Le Corre et al., 2011, DPS/EPSC 2011). The system will also provide surface mineral chemistry layers that can be used for mapping Vesta's surface.

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