New mixed ligand complexes have been prepared by the reaction of Quinoline2-Carboxylic Acid (HL1) and 4,4 -dimethyl,2,2-Bipyridyl (L2) with Co(II),Ni(II) Cu(II), Zn(II), Pd(II) and Au(III) ions. The newly prepared complexes were isolated and characterized by (FT-IR) and (UVVis) spectroscopy, elemental analysis, flame atomic absorption technique, thermo gravimetric analysis, in addition to magne...

The quantitative determination of chlorophyll (Chl) a, Chl b, and carotenoids in a wholepigment extract of green plant tissue by UVVIS spectroscopy is complicated by the choice of sample, solvent system, and spectrophotometer used. The various plant pigments absorb light in overlapping spectral regions, depending on the system selected. This unit discusses methods used to account for such overl...

Introduction The Moon Mineralogy Mapper (M), which flew on India’s Chandrayaan-1 has provided the lunar science community with a richest view of our Moon to date. Information of the lunar surface returned by M provided the first conclusive evidence of the presence of OH, and possibly H2O at the poles, and in isolated locations as far down as the equator [1]. The coming discoveries and new views...

The synthesis and characterization of mixed ligand complexes of Fe (III) with tartaric acid/succinic acid and heterocyclic amines. These complexes were characterized on the basis of elemental analysis, conductometric, magnetic measurements, UVvis, IR spectral studies. All the complexes were found electrolytic and paramagnetic in nature with high spin octahedral structure. The synthesized comple...

[1] Multiple end-member spectral mixture analysis (MESMA) was applied to the Clementine UVVIS global 1 km multispectral data set, and the resulting highland material fraction image was used to investigate highland contamination of mare surfaces by impact cratering. MESMA decomposes each pixel with the number of end-members fewer than the number of the spectral bands of Clementine UVVIS data. Th...

CLEMENTINE 2.7 μm DATA AND 70-CM EARTH-BASED RADAR DATA PROVIDE ADDITIONAL CONSTRAINTS FOR UVVIS-BASED ESTIMATES OF TiO2 CONTENT FOR LUNAR MARE BASALTS. J. J. Gillis, P. G. Lucey, B. A. Campbell, and B. R. Hawke, Hawaii Institute of Geophysics and Planetology, University of Hawaii, 1680 East-West Road, POST 515, Honolulu, HI 96822 ([email protected]), 2Center for Earth and Planetary Studie...

In order to quantitatively assess the composition of the lunar surface from reflectance spectroscopy, it is necessary to be able to differentiate between the optical effects due to composition and those due to exposure to space weathering processes. Laboratory analyses of returned lunar soils are used to show that limited quantitative compositional information and the exposure age of the lunar ...

Introduction: An accurate phase function is necessary for precise photometric correction of the Clementine lunar UVVIS images. Although several researchers have proposed photometric models for Clementine UVVIS images using empirical phase functions (e.g., [1] [2] [3]), additional work is required for correction of the data at small phase angle (<20), because the phase function at small phase an...

[1] An analysis of the Northern Imbrium Noritic (NIN) region was conducted using Clementine UVVIS multispectral images and derived band parameters. Band parameters were used to map spatial variations in composition and to aid in general separation of compositional signatures from effects such as maturity and topography. Compositional trends in which the abundance of mafic materials relative to ...