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The SMART-1 lunar impact
Foing, B. H.; Burchell, M. J.; Robin-Williams, R.
The SMART-1 spacecraft impacted the Moon on 3rd September 2006 at a speed of 2 km s -1 and at a very shallow angle of incidence (∼1°). The resulting impact crater is too small to be viewed from the Earth; accordingly, the general crater size and shape have been determined here by laboratory impact experiments at the same speed and angle…
Calibration of the C1XS instrument on Chandrayaan-1
Howe, C. J.; Kellett, B. J.; Narendranath, S. +5 more
The Chandrayaan-1 X-ray spectrometer (C1XS) experiment on the Chandrayaan-1 mission was designed to carry out spectroscopic observations in the 1-10 keV range for deriving lunar chemistry. We present results from the ground calibration of the Swept Charge Devices (SCDs) on C1XS at the RESIK X-ray beam facility at Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Ch…