The Moon Mineralogy Mapper (M) on Chandrayaan-1
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Carle M. Pieters*, Joseph Boardman, Bonnie Buratti, Alok Chatterjee, Roger Clark, Tom Glavich, Robert Green, James Head III, Peter Isaacson, Erick Malaret, Thomas McCord, John Mustard, Noah Petro, Cassandra Runyon, Matthew Staid, Jessica Sunshine, Lawrence Taylor, Stefanie Tompkins, Padma Varanasi and Mary White Department of Geological Sciences, Brown University, Providence, RI 02912, USA Analytical Imaging and Geophysics LLC, Boulder, Colorado Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California 91109, USA US Geological Survey, Denver, Colorado, USA Applied Coherent Technology, Virginia 28170, USA The Bear Fight Center, Winthrop, WA 98862, USA NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD 20771, USA College of Charleston, Charleston, SC 29424, USA PSI, Tucson, AZ 85719, USA University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD 21201, USA University of Tennesse, Knoxville, TN 37996, USA Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, USA
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Moon Mineralogy Mapper/Chandrayaan-1. Moon Mineralogy Mapper (M) is one of eleven instruments selected to fly onboard India’s Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft in 2008. M, selected as a NASA Discovery Mission of Opportunity in May, 2004, is a high spatial and spectral resolution spectrometer that will help scientists better understand the compositional variation of the Moon’s surface. Ms overall science...
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