Introduction: Giordano Bruno (GB) crater is among the youngest large lunar impact craters (22 km diameter at 36°N, 103°E (Fig. 1)). Its crisp morphology, extensive ray system, and spectral properties imply a young age (<<1 by). Spectral data [1, 2] indicate the ray material is immature having an optical maturity index, calculated from the Clementine 950/750 nm ratio [2, 3] of ~0.27. It was sugg...

The Suomi NPP (S-NPP) Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) performs the scheduled lunar roll maneuver on a monthly basis. The lunar calibration coefficients and lunar F-factor are calculated by taking the ratio of the lunar observed radiance to the simulated radiance from the Miller and Turner (MT) lunar model. The lunar F-factor is also validated against that derived from the VIIR...

The paper researched and presented a virtual simulation system based on a full-digital lunar terrain, integrated with kinematics and dynamics module as well as autonomous navigation simulation module. The system simulation models are established. Enabling technologies such as digital lunar surface module, kinematics and dynamics simulation, Autonomous navigation are investigated. A prototype sy...

Images returned by the MESSENGER spacecraft from the Mercury flybys have been examined to search for anomalous high-albedo markings similar to lunar swirls. Several features suggested to be swirls on the basis of Mariner 10 imaging (in the craters Handel and Lermontov) are seen in higher-resolution MESSENGER images to lack the characteristic morphology of lunar swirls. Although antipodes of lar...

The magnetometer and electron reflectometer experiment on the Lunar Prospector spacecraft has obtained maps of lunar crustal magnetic fields and observed the interaction between the solar wind and regions of strong crustal magnetic fields at high selenographic latitude (30 degreesS to 80 degreesS) and low ( approximately 100 kilometers) altitude. Electron reflection maps of the regions antipoda...

Thermo-chemical models of the dynamics of the internal differentiation of the Moon require accurate knowledge of the density of lunar minerals and melts at a range of high pressure, high temperature conditions. Here we present a comparative study of high-pressure, high-temperature density determinations of possible primitive lunar melts, as represented by volcanic glass beads sampled during the...

¶1 It has become increasingly common for brain images to be proffered as evidence in civil and criminal litigation.2 This Article offers some general guidelines to legal thinkers about how to understand brain imaging studies—or at least avoid misunderstanding them. And it annotates a published brain imaging study by several of the present authors (and others) in order to illustrate and explain,...