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Lunar photometric modelling with SMART-1/AMIE imaging data

Muinonen, K.; Videen, G.; Josset, J. -L. +2 more

We investigate the light-scattering properties of the lunar mare areas. A large photometric dataset was extracted from images taken by the AMIE camera on board the SMART-1 spacecraft. Inter-particle shadowing effects in the regolith are modelled using ray-tracing simulations, and then a phase function is fit to the data using Bayesian techniques a…