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Spectral properties of lunar impact melt deposits from Moon Mineralogy Mapper (M³) data

Tornabene, L. L.; Neish, C. D.; Cannon, K. M. +3 more

Lunar impact melt deposits have unusual surface properties, unlike any measured terrestrial lava flow. Radar observations suggest that they are incredibly rough at decimeter scales, but they appear smooth in high-resolution, meter-scale optical images. The cause of their unusual surface roughness is unknown. In this work, we investigate the proper…

Characterizing southern portion of Mare Vaporum with improved Chandrayaan-1 M³ data

Videen, Gorden; Shkuratov, Yuriy; Surkov, Yehor +3 more

We investigate a southern portion of Mare Vaporum using Chandrayaan-1 M³ images for which we suppress striped noise. Additional data processing allows us to analyze such spectral parameters as the depths and positions of the absorption bands near 1 and 2 µm. Mineral types were mapped using the cluster analysis of Adams diagram for…