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Gullies and landslides on the Moon: Evidence for dry-granular flows
Mustard, John; Ostrach, Lillian R.; Kiran Kumar, A. S. +7 more
High-resolution images from Chandrayaan-1 Terrain Mapping Camera and Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera reveal landslides and gully formation on the interior wall of a 7 km-diameter simple crater emplaced in Schrödinger basin on the farside of the Moon. These features occur on the steep upper crater wall, where the slope is ~35°. The gullies show…
Near-infrared optical constants of naturally occurring olivine and synthetic pyroxene as a function of mineral composition
Trang, David; Gillis-Davis, Jeffrey J.; Klima, Rachel L. +3 more
Radiative transfer theory will assist in determining olivine and pyroxene proportions and compositions from the surface of a planetary body composed of intimately mixed minerals. In order to use radiative transfer techniques, the model requires the optical constants of olivine and pyroxene. Optical constants are parameters that describe the degree…
Lunar opposition effect as inferred from Chandrayaan-1 M3 data
Shkuratov, Yuriy; Kaydash, Vadym; Korokhin, Viktor +1 more
The shadow-hiding and coherent backscattering enhancement mechanisms are considered to be the major contributors to the brightness opposition effect of the Moon. However, the actual proportions of the mechanisms at different phase angles still remain not well determined. In order to assess the lunar phase function across small phase angles, we uti…