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Global Elemental Maps of the Moon: The Lunar Prospector Gamma-Ray Spectrometer

Published:1998-09-04 Issue:5382 Volume:281 Page:1484-1489
ISSN:0036-8075
Container-title:Science
language:en
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Author:

Lawrence D. J.¹,Feldman W. C.¹,Barraclough B. L.¹,Binder A. B.¹,Elphic R. C.¹,Maurice S.¹,Thomsen D. R.¹

Affiliation:

1. D. J. Lawrence, W. C. Feldman, B. L. Barraclough, R. C. Elphic, D. R. Thomsen, Space and Atmospheric Sciences, Mail Stop D466, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM 87545, USA. Telephone: 505-667-0945, Fax: 505-665-7395,. A. B. Binder, Lunar Research Institute, Gilroy, CA, 95020, USA. S. Maurice, Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées, Toulouse, France.

Abstract

Lunar Prospector gamma-ray spectrometer spectra along with counting rate maps of thorium, potassium, and iron delineate large compositional variations over the lunar surface. Thorium and potassium are highly concentrated in and around the nearside western maria and less so in the South Pole–Aitken basin. Counting rate maps of iron gamma-rays show a surface iron distribution that is in general agreement with other measurements from Clementine and the Lunar Prospector neutron detectors.

Publisher

American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Subject

Multidisciplinary

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