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Temperature-Dependent Near-Infrared Spectral Properties of Minerals, Meteorites, and Lunar Soil

โœ Scribed by John L. Hinrichs; Paul G. Lucey


Publisher
Elsevier Science
Year
2002
Tongue
English
Weight
416 KB
Volume
155
Category
Article
ISSN
0019-1035

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โœฆ Synopsis


The near-IR spectral properties of minerals, meteorites, and lunar soil vary with temperature. The manner in which these materials vary is diagnostic of aspects of their composition. We quantify the spectral dependence on temperature by reporting the change in relative reflectance with temperature as a function of wavelength. We call this quantity, R/ T (in units of K -1 ), as a function of temperature the "thermo-reflectance spectrum." The thermo-reflectance spectra of olivine and pyroxene are distinct, and most of the observable structure in thermo-reflectance spectra of the ordinary and carbonaceous chondrites can be understood in terms of a mixture of the thermo-reflectance spectra of olivine and pyroxene. The magnitude of thermo-reflectance spectra of meteorites and lunar soils is much less than that of pure minerals. Lunar soils are particularly subdued. While conventional analysis of remotely obtained spectra of the Moon can neglect temperature effects, spatially resolved measurements of the surface of the asteroid Vesta will likely have a strong temperature-dependent component based on measurements of a eucrite and a howardite.


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