Clementine Observations of the Zodiacal
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Joseph M. Hahn; Herbert A. Zook; Bonnie Cooper; Bhaskar Sunkara
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Article
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2002
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Elsevier Science
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English
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Using the Moon to occult the Sun, the Clementine spacecraft used its navigation cameras to map the inner zodiacal light at optical wavelengths over elongations of 3 βΌ < βΌ < 30 β’ from the Sun. This surface brightness map is then used to infer the spatial distribution of interplanetary dust over helio