Mineral Compositions of the Bright Rayed Craters and Lunar Far-side Crust Revealed by the Continuous Vis-nir Spectra by Spectral Profiler on Selene/kaguya
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REVEALED BY THE CONTINUOUS VIS-NIR SPECTRA BY SPECTRAL PROFILER ON SELENE/KAGUYA. Y. Ogawa, T. Matsunaga, R. Nakamura, H. Takeda, M. Ohtake, T. Morota, T. Hiroi, T. Arai, K. Saiki, T. Sugihara, J. Haruyama, Y. Yokota, C. Honda, T. Nimura, N. Hirata, H. Demura, N. Asada, J. Terazono, National Institute for Environmental Studies, 16-2 Onogawa, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, 305-8506, Japan ([email protected]), National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Chiba Institute of Technology, Institute of Space and Astronautical Science, JAXA, Brown University, National Institute of Polar Research, Osaka University, Japan Agency for Marine Science and Technology, University of Aizu.
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