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Kinetic simulations of finite gyroradius effects in the lunar plasma environment on global, meso, and microscales

Barabash, Stas; Jarvinen, Riku; Kallio, Esa +12 more

The recent in situ particle measurements near the Moon by Chandrayaan-1 and Kaguya missions as well as the earlier observation by the Lunar Prospector have shown that the Moon-solar wind interaction is more complicated than believed earlier. The new observations have arisen the need for a detailed modelling of the near surface plasma-surface proce…

Geochemical and mineralogical analysis of Gruithuisen region on Moon using M3 and DIVINER images

Murty, S. V. S.; Kusuma, K. N.; Sebastian, N.

Spectral information from the Moon Mineralogy Mapper (M3) onboard Chandrayaan-1 and DIVINER Lunar Radiometer onboard LRO have been used for geochemical and mineralogical characterisation of the Gruithuisen region on Moon along with morphometrical information from LOLA Digital elevation model. The apparent reflectance of M3 on global mode is used f…

The Chandrayaan-1 X-ray Spectrometer: First results

Grande, M.; Koschny, D.; Rothery, D. A. +30 more

We present X-ray fluorescence observations of the lunar surface, made by the Chandrayaan-1 X-ray Spectrometer during two solar flare events early in the mission (12th December 2008 and 10th January 2009). Modelling of the X-ray spectra with an abundance algorithm allows quantitative estimates of the MgO/SiO₂ and Al₂O₃

Study of scattering characteristics of lunar equatorial region using Chandrayaan-1 Mini-SAR polarimetric data

Saran, Sriram; Das, Anup; Mohan, Shiv +1 more

The miniaturized synthetic aperture radar Mini-SAR onboard Indian Chandrayaan-1 mission was the first ever lunar orbiting SAR that acquired several data strips covering a wide variety of geological units over lunar equatorial and low latitude regions, some of which were not studied earlier at radar wavelengths. The Mini-SAR observations, complemen…