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Dave E. Smith
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Near-Infrared Photometry of the Moon’s Surface with Passive Radiometry from the Lunar Orbiter Laser Altimeter (LOLA)
TO THE MOON: A NEW ERA OF LUNAR SCIENCE —GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS II POSTER
planetary sciences | 11 december 2023
Ryan T. Walker, Michael K. Barker, Erwan Mazarico,...
Photometry, the analysis of surface reflectance changes under different illumination and viewing conditions, is a useful tool for characterizing the n...
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Two-way laser ranging from LRO-LOLA to Apollo laser retro-reflector arrays on the lunar surface
TO THE MOON: A NEW ERA OF LUNAR SCIENCE —GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS II POSTER
planetary sciences | 11 december 2023
Dandan Mao, Michael K. Barker, Erwan Mazarico, Ste...
The Apollo astronauts deployed three large laser retro-reflector arrays (LRA) on the Moon over 50 years ago. Since then, these LRAs have been used for...
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Gravity and Geology of the Lunar South Polar Region
TO THE MOON: A NEW ERA OF LUNAR SCIENCE —GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS II POSTER
planetary sciences | 11 december 2023
David E. Smith, Sander J. Goossens, James W. Head,...
Recent lunar gravity field models have resolutions that might enable limited interpretation of the top 5 km of the lunar crust with possible geologica...
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Updating North Polar Topographic Products from the Lunar Orbiter Laser Altimeter (LOLA)
TO THE MOON: A NEW ERA OF LUNAR SCIENCE —GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS II POSTER
planetary sciences | 11 december 2023
Michael K. Barker, Erwan Mazarico, Gregory A. Neum...
Due to the Moons low obliquity and highly cratered topography, its polar environments host regions of extreme illumination conditions. Multiple lines ...
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Spatially-resolved Lunar Phase Function at 1064 nm from Lunar Orbiter Laser Altimeter (LOLA) Passive Radiometry
FROM APOLLO TO ARTEMIS: A PERSPECTIVE ON THE 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF APOLLO 17 AND WHAT IS TO COME REGARDING OUR MOON II POSTER
planetary sciences | 15 december 2022
Ryan T. Walker, Michael K. Barker, Xiaoli Sun, Erw...
In addition to measuring lunar topography, the Lunar Orbiter Laser Altimeter (LOLA) onboard the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) can act as a narrow...
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New Topographic Products for the Lunar South Pole from the Lunar Orbiter Laser Altimeter (LOLA)
FROM APOLLO TO ARTEMIS: A PERSPECTIVE ON THE 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF APOLLO 17 AND WHAT IS TO COME REGARDING OUR MOON I ONLINE POSTER DISCUSSION
planetary sciences | 15 december 2022
Michael K. Barker, Erwan Mazarico, Gregory A. Neum...
Due to the Moons low obliquity and highly cratered topography, its polar environments host regions of extreme illumination conditions. Multiple lines ...
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Can We Constrain the Structure Under Large Basins from Gravity?
THE INNER SOLAR SYSTEM III POSTER
planetary sciences | 13 december 2022
David E. Smith, Sander J. Goossens, Maria T. Zuber
Large lunar basins are characterized in part by their large gravity anomalies, which are usually positive. Their gravitational signatures can be expr...
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Reorientation of the Moon from its Bombardment History
THE FORMATION AND EARLY EVOLUTION OF THE EARTH AND THE MOON III POSTER
union sessions | 13 december 2022
Vishnu Viswanathan, Erwan Mazarico, David E. Smith...
The Moon preserves most of its ~4.25-billion-year surface bombardment history, visible through its present-day gravity field and topography datasets, ...
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