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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Sanin, A.B.
• Mitrofanov, I.G.
• Litvak, M.L.
• Bakhtin, B.N.
• Bodnarik, J.G.
• Boynton, W.V.
• G. Chin
• Evans, L.G.
• Harshman, K.
• Fedosov, F.
• Golovin, D.V.
• Kozyrev, A.S.
• Livengood, T.A.
• Malakhov, A.V.
• McClanahan, T.P.
• Mokrousov, M.I.
• Starr, R.D.
• Sagdeev, R.Z.
• Tret'yakov, V.I.
• Vostrukhin, A.A.

Titel

Hydrogen distribution in the lunar polar regions

Ist Teil von

• Icarus (New York, N.Y. 1962), 2017-02, Vol.283, p.20-30

Ort / Verlag

Elsevier Inc

Erscheinungsjahr

2017

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• •LEND/LRO instrument neutron counting data sets have been analyzed to create high resolution maps of epithermal neutron flux at polar regions of the Moon.•The conversion from epithermal neutron flux to the H/H2O abundances is presented based on the simple subsurface models.•The polar lunar maps (poleward 70S/70N) of homogeneous hydrogen distribution are derived and discussed. We present a method of conversion of the lunar neutron counting rate measured by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) Lunar Exploration Neutron Detector (LEND) instrument collimated neutron detectors, to water equivalent hydrogen (WEH) in the top ∼1m layer of lunar regolith. Polar maps of the Moon's inferred hydrogen abundance are presented and discussed.