Distribution of iron and titanium on the lunar surface from lunar prospector gamma ray spectra

Details Distribution of iron and titanium on the lunar surface from lunar prospector gamma ray spectra Distribution of iron and titanium on the lunar surface from lunar prospector gamma ray spectra

Jan 2001

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2001stin...0229925p&link_type=abstract

Technical Report, DE2001-774348; LA-UR-01-536

Computer Science

Lunar Topography, Lunar Surface, Gamma Ray Spectra, Iron, Titanium, Inelastic Scattering, Spectrum Analysis, Remote Sensors, Moon, Fast Neutrons, Cosmic Rays, Pulse Amplitude, Spectral Reflectance, Surface Properties

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Gamma ray pulse height spectra acquired by the Lunar Prospector (LP) Gamma-Ray Spectrometer (GRS) contain information on the abundance of major elements in the lunar surface, including O, Si, Ti, Al, Fe, Mg, Ca, K, and Th. With the exception of Th and K, prompt gamma rays produced by cosmic ray interactions with surface materials are used to determine elemental abundance. Most of these gamma rays are produced by inelastic scattering of fast neutrons and by neutrons and by neutron capture. The production of neutron-induced gamma rays reaches a maximum deep below the surface (e.g. approximately 140g/cm2 for inelastic scattering and approximately 50 g/cm2 for capture). Consequently, gamma rays sense the bulk composition of lunar materials, in contrast to optical methods (e.g. Clementine Spectral Reflectance (CSR)), which only sample the top few microns. Because most of the gamma rays are produced deep beneath the surface, few escape unscattered and the continuum of scattered gamma rays dominates the spectrum. In addition, due to the resolution of the spectrometer, there are few well-isolated peaks and peak fitting algorithms must be used to deconvolve the spectrum on order to determine the contribution of individual elements.

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