Sentences with phrase «lunar radiometer»

Also while a student in Los Angeles, she served as a team member working on NASA's Diviner Lunar Radiometer Experiment, an instrument that flies aboard the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter.

We obtained direct global measurements of the lunar surface using multispectral thermal emission mapping with the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Diviner Lunar Radiometer Experiment.

Using data from the Diviner Lunar Radiometer Experiment, we show that four regions of the Moon previously described as «red spots» exhibit mid-infrared spectra best explained by quartz, silica - rich glass, or alkali feldspar.

LRO's early results have already caused a stir: The Diviner Lunar Radiometer Experiment sent back the first global temperature maps of the moon, revealing ultracold pockets in permanently shadowed portions of craters near the south pole.

They combined data from LEND with lunar topography and illumination maps derived from LRO's LOLA instrument (Lunar Orbiter Laser Altimeter), and temperature maps from LRO's Diviner instrument (Diviner Lunar Radiometer Experiment) to discover the greater hydrogen abundance and associated surface conditions on PFS.