Moon Images By SMART-1 |
Moon Images By SMART-1 |
Jan 20 2005, 02:45 PM
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SMART-1 is approaching its operational orbit. ESA has released some images of the Moon on this page:
http://sci.esa.int/science-e/www/object/in...fobjectid=36358 -------------------- Antti Kuosmanen
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Guest_BruceMoomaw_* |
Jun 3 2006, 05:03 AM
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Resolution of the Clementine cameras at its periapsis of 425 km was 115 m/pixel for the UV/visible camera (6 bands), 178m for the near-IR camera (6 bands), 65 m for the 1-band long-IR camera, and 30 m for the camera associated with the Lidar (5 bands). That periapsis was moved from 30 deg S to 30 deg N over the mission. Apoapsis was 8300 km.
Resolution of SMART-1's AMIE camera (3 bands, all within the range of Clementine's UV/visible camera) at its periapsis of 300 km is 27 m/pixel. Apoapsis is 3000 km. Periapsis was left at the south pole during the primary mission, but has now been moved to 30 deg S. Area coverage by the two missions can perhaps be guessed at from these figures -- obviously they've covered the Moon's southern hemisphere much better than its northern one. As for Clementine's Lidar coverage, there's an excellent summary at http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/database/Master...=1994-004A&ex=4 . Personally, I'm a lot more interested in seeing the results from SMART's near-IR spectrometer (never taken to the Moon before) and its X-ray spectrometer (first map outside a narrow equatorial zone). |
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Guest_DonPMitchell_* |
Jun 3 2006, 08:27 AM
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Resolution of the Clementine cameras at its periapsis of 425 km was 115 m/pixel for the UV/visible camera (6 bands), 178m for the near-IR camera (6 bands), 65 m for the 1-band long-IR camera, and 30 m for the camera associated with the Lidar (5 bands). That periapsis was moved from 30 deg S to 30 deg N over the mission. Apoapsis was 8300 km. Resolution of SMART-1's AMIE camera (3 bands, all within the range of Clementine's UV/visible camera) at its periapsis of 300 km is 27 m/pixel. Apoapsis is 3000 km. Periapsis was left at the south pole during the primary mission, but has now been moved to 30 deg S. Area coverage by the two missions can perhaps be guessed at from these figures -- obviously they've covered the Moon's southern hemisphere much better than its northern one. As for Clementine's Lidar coverage, there's an excellent summary at http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/database/Master...=1994-004A&ex=4 . Personally, I'm a lot more interested in seeing the results from SMART's near-IR spectrometer (never taken to the Moon before) and its X-ray spectrometer (first map outside a narrow equatorial zone). Thanks. I've looked at the Clementine LIDAR data. It is too course to be of much use for bumpmapping. |
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