Technical comment on "Hydrogen mapping of the lunar South Pole using the LRO neutron detector experiment LEND".

Supporting Online Material for Hydrogen Mapping of the Lunar South Pole Using the LRO Neutron Detector Experiment LEND

Image Restoration of Lunar Neutron Albedo Maps for the Lunar Explora- Tion Neutron Detector (lend)

Introduction: The Lunar Exploration Neutron Detector (LEND) onboard the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) will measure the flux of neutrons from the Moon, which are produced by the continuous and isotropic cosmic ray bombardment of the lunar surface. When cosmic rays hit the regolith, they release high-energy neutrons that are then slowed down and absorbed by the nuclei of elements in the rego...

Moonshine: Diurnally varying hydration through natural distillation on the Moon, detected by the Lunar Exploration Neutron Detector (LEND)

The Lunar Exploration Neutron Detector (LEND), on the polar-orbiting Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) spacecraft, has detected suppression in the Moon's naturally-occurring epithermal neutron leakage flux that is consistent with the presence of diurnally varying quantities of hydrogen in the regolith near the equator. Peak hydrogen concentration (neutron flux suppression) is on the dayside of...

The Importance of Lro Observations to the Lcross Mission

The LCROSS Mission: LCROSS, the Lunar CRater Observation and Sensing Satellite, will be launched on the same rocket as the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) later this year (http://lcross.arc.nasa.gov). The LCROSS scientific objectives are: (1) Confirm the presence or absence of water ice in a permanently shadowed region on the Moon. (2) Identify the form/state of hydrogen observed by at the l...

Comparison of image restoration methods for lunar epithermal neutron emission mapping

Orbital measurements of neu tro ns by the Lunar Explori ng Neutron Detector (LEN D) onboard the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter are being used to quantify the spatial dis tribution of near surface hydrogen (H). In fe rred H concentration maps have low signal-to-noise (SN) and image restoration (IR) techniques are being studied to enhance results. A single-blind. two-phase study is described in whi...