Astrophysics from The Moon

Thermal Infrared Data from the Moon: Hazards

Introduction: Earth’s relatively clear thermal infrared (TIR) atmospheric windows correspond to the wavelength region of maximum emitted energy for the global average temperature (8-12 μm) as well as the temperature of most volcanoes/fires (3-5 μm). Furthermore, a majority of minerals have diagnostic emissivity spectra in the 8-12 μm region, making it excellent for the study of surface composit...

Zircon from the Moon , Earth and Mars

PSRD: Recent Gas Escape from the Moon

The Moon is generally thought to be geologically inactive, except for being pummeled by meteoroids of various sizes. The youngest returned igneous rocks are about 3 billion years old, although crater counting suggest some lava flows as young as a billion years. However, Peter Schultz (Brown University), Matthew Staid (Planetary Sciences Institute, Tucson), and Carlé Pieters (Brown University) r...

Colorful Views of the Moon: Comparing Spectra from Clementine and the Moon Mineral- Ogy

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...

Particle Astrophysics from the Particle Perspective