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The lunar reconnaissance orbiter diviner lunar radiometer experiment

Space Science Reviews 150:1-4 (2010) 125-160

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DA Paige, MC Foote, BT Greenhagen, JT Schofield, S Calcutt, AR Vasavada, DJ Preston, FW Taylor, CC Allen, KJ Snook, BM Jakosky, BC Murray, LA Soderblom, B Jau, S Loring, J Bulharowski, NE Bowles, IR Thomas, MT Sullivan, C Avis, EM De Jong, W Hartford, DJ McCleese

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The Diviner Lunar Radiometer Experiment on NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter will be the first instrument to systematically map the global thermal state of the Moon and its diurnal and seasonal variability. Diviner will measure reflected solar and emitted infrared radiation in nine spectral channels with wavelengths ranging from 0.3 to 400 microns. The resulting measurements will enable characterization of the lunar thermal environment, mapping surface properties such as thermal inertia, rock abundance and silicate mineralogy, and determination of the locations and temperatures of volatile cold traps in the lunar polar regions. © The author(s) 2009.
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Correlations between cloud thickness and sub-cloud water abundance on Venus

GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS 37 (2010) ARTN L02202

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Constantine CC Tsang, Colin F Wilson, Joanna K Barstow, Patrick GJ Irwin, Fredric W Taylor, Kevin McGouldrick, Giuseppe Piccioni, Pierre Drossart, Hakan Svedhem
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Diviner Lunar Radiometer Observations of Cold Traps in the Moon's South Polar Region

SCIENCE 330:6003 (2010) 479-482

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David A Paige, Matthew A Siegler, Jo Ann Zhang, Paul O Hayne, Emily J Foote, Kristen A Bennett, Ashwin R Vasavada, Benjamin T Greenhagen, John T Schofield, Daniel J McCleese, Marc C Foote, Eric DeJong, Bruce G Bills, Wayne Hartford, Bruce C Murray, Carlton C Allen, Kelly Snook, Laurence A Soderblom, Simon Calcutt, Fredric W Taylor, Neil E Bowles, Joshua L Bandfield, Richard Elphic, Rebecca Ghent, Timothy D Glotch, Michael B Wyatt, Paul G Lucey
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Global Silicate Mineralogy of the Moon from the Diviner Lunar Radiometer

SCIENCE 329:5998 (2010) 1507-1509

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Benjamin T Greenhagen, Paul G Lucey, Michael B Wyatt, Timothy D Glotch, Carlton C Allen, Jessica A Arnold, Joshua L Bandfield, Neil E Bowles, Kerri L Donaldson Hanna, Paul O Hayne, Eugenie Song, Ian R Thomas, David A Paige
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Mapping Titan's HCN in the far infra-red: implications for photochemistry.

Faraday Discuss 147 (2010) 51-64

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NA Teanby, PGJ Irwin, R de Kok, CA Nixon

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Observations of Titan's far infra-red spectra by the Cassini orbiter's Composite InfraRed Spectrometer have been used to determine the latitude distribution of HCN at 1 mbar by fitting the HCN and CO rotational lines in the 18-60 cm(-1) (160-550 microm) spectral range. Results confirm the north polar HCN enrichment previously observed using mid-IR data and support the conclusion that Titan's nitrile species are significantly more enriched than hydrocarbons species with similar predicted photochemical lifetimes. This suggests Titan's photochemical cycle includes an additional sink for nitrogen bearing species. The abundance of CO was also determined, and had a mean value of 55 +/- 6 ppm at 20 mbar. However, it was not possible to reliably determine the CO latitude variation due to unconstrained temperatures in the north polar lower stratosphere.
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