Mathematics – Logic
Scientific paper
Dec 2002
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2002agufm.p51c..02j&link_type=abstract
American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2002, abstract #P51C-02
Mathematics
Logic
5410 Composition
Scientific paper
Determining the composition of planetary surfaces remotely has been a major scientific and technological challenge throughout the history of planetary science and astronomy. In the 1960's Tom McCord, working with Bruce Murray at Caltech, began working with then state-of-the-art photometric instrumentation to make an order of magnitude leap in the precision of reflection spectroscopy measurements for the Moon. Not only did he have to overcome major technological and engineering challenges, he had to apply the developing science of solid-state crystal field theory to understand the compositional implication of his measurements. At the time many astronomers and chemists were skeptical that unique identifications could be made, feeling that 'you can make anything any color you want with a few impurities'. Tom's work laid the observational and analytic groundwork for much of the current discipline of remote sensing in the visible and near infrared wavelengths. His equipment and expertise were initially applied to a survey of potential Apollo landing sites (Summer Moonshine), where I first was introduced to the techniques of reflection spectroscopy (and a piece of the moon in Serenitatis soon to be infamous for all Tom's associates). Since then his techniques and observations have been applied to essentially every part of the solar system, and he, his associates and students have played major roles on most of the major planetary exploration missions of the last three decades.
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