Searching for Lunar Horizon Glow with the Lunar Orbiter Laser Altimeter
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K. Barker1, E. Mazarico2, D. E. Smith3, X. Sun2, M. T. Zuber3, T. P. McClanahan2, G. A. Neumann2, M. H. Torrence4, J. W. Head5. 1Sigma Space Corp., 4600 Forbes Blvd. Lanham, MD 20706 [email protected], 2Solar System Exploration Division, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center 8800 Greenbelt Rd. Greenbelt, MD 20771, 3Dept. of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, MIT, 77 Massachusetts Ave. Cambridge, MA 02139, 4Stinger Ghaffarian Technologies, Inc., 7701 Greenbelt Road, Suite 400, Greenbelt, Maryland 20770, USA, 5Dep. Earth, Env. & Planet. Sci., Brown Univ., Providence, RI, 02906, USA.
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