The Lunar Orbiter Laser Altimeter Investigation on the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Mission

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作者
Smith, David E. [2 ]
Zuber, Maria T. [1 ]
Jackson, Glenn B. [3 ]
Cavanaugh, John F. [3 ]
Neumann, Gregory A. [2 ]
Riris, Haris [2 ]
Sun, Xiaoli [2 ]
Zellar, Ronald S. [3 ]
Coltharp, Craig [3 ]
Connelly, Joseph [3 ]
Katz, Richard B. [3 ]
Kleyner, Igor [3 ]
Liiva, Peter [5 ]
Matuszeski, Adam [3 ]
Mazarico, Erwan M. [2 ]
McGarry, Jan F. [2 ]
Novo-Gradac, Anne-Marie [3 ]
Ott, Melanie N. [3 ]
Peters, Carlton [3 ]
Ramos-Izquierdo, Luis A. [3 ]
Ramsey, Lawrence [3 ]
Rowlands, David D. [2 ]
Schmidt, Stephen [3 ]
Scott, V. Stanley, III [2 ]
Shaw, George B. [3 ]
Smith, James C. [3 ]
Swinski, Joseph-Paul [2 ]
Torrence, Mark H. [4 ]
Unger, Glenn [3 ]
Yu, Anthony W. [3 ]
Zagwodzki, Thomas W. [2 ]
机构
[1] MIT, Dept Earth Atmospher & Planetary Sci, Cambridge, MA 02139 USA
[2] NASA, Goddard Space Flight Ctr, Solar Syst Explorat Div, Greenbelt, MD 20771 USA
[3] NASA, Goddard Space Flight Ctr, Adv Engn Technol Directorate, Greenbelt, MD 20771 USA
[4] Stinger Ghaffarian Technol, Greenbelt, MD 20770 USA
[5] Sigma Space Corp, Lanham, MD 20706 USA
关键词
Moon; Shape; Space instrumentation; Topography; MARS; TOPOGRAPHY; MOON; INSTRUMENT; SHAPE;
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10.1007/s11214-009-9512-y
中图分类号
P1 [天文学];
学科分类号
0704 ;
摘要
The Lunar Orbiter Laser Altimeter (LOLA) is an instrument on the payload of NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter spacecraft (LRO) (Chin et al., in Space Sci. Rev. 129:391-419, 2007). The instrument is designed to measure the shape of the Moon by measuring precisely the range from the spacecraft to the lunar surface, and incorporating precision orbit determination of LRO, referencing surface ranges to the Moon's center of mass. LOLA has 5 beams and operates at 28 Hz, with a nominal accuracy of 10 cm. Its primary objective is to produce a global geodetic grid for the Moon to which all other observations can be precisely referenced.
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