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WORKSHOP ON NEW VIEWS OF THE MOON: INTEGRATED REMOTELY SENSED, GEOPHYSICAL, AND SAMPLE DATASETS September 18–20, 1998 Lunar and Planetary Institute, Houston, Texas LPI WORKSHOP ON NEW VIEWS OF THE MOON: INTEGRATED REMOTELY SENSED, GEOPHYSICAL, AND SAMPLE DATASETS Lunar and Planetary Institute, Houston, Texas September 18–20, 1998 Edited by B. L. Jolliff and G. Ryder Sponsored by Lunar and Planetary Institute National Aeronautics and Space Administration through CAPTEM (Curation and Analysis Planning Team for Extraterrestrial Samples) Organizers Ben Bussey European Space Agency Cass Coombs College of Charleston B. Ray Hawke University of Hawai’i Jim Head Brown University Brad Jolliff Washington University Paul Lucey University of Hawai’i Clive Neal University of Notre Dame Graham Ryder Lunar and Planetary Institute Mark Wieczorek Washington University Lunar and Planetary Institute 3600 Bay Area Boulevard Houston TX 77058-1113 LPI Contribution No. 958 ii Workshop on New Views of the Moon Compiled in 1998 by LUNAR AND PLANETARY INSTITUTE The Institute is operated by the Universities Space Research Association under Contract No. NASW-4574 with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Material in this volume may be copied without restraint for library, abstract service, education, or personal research purposes; however, republication of any paper or portion thereof requires the written permission of the authors as well as the appropriate acknowledgment of this publication. This volume may be cited as Jolliff B. L. and Ryder G., eds. (1998) Workshop on New Views of the Moon: Integrated Remotely Sensed, Geophysical, and Sample Datasets. LPI Contribution No. 958, Lunar and Planetary Institute, Houston. 87 pp. This volume is distributed by ORDER DEPARTMENT Lunar and Planetary Institute 3600 Bay Area Boulevard Houston TX 77058-1113, USA Phone: 281-486-2172 Fax: 281-486-2186 E-mail: [email protected] Mail order requestors will be invoiced for the cost of shipping and handling. LPI Contribution No. 958 iii Contents Introduction ..................................................................................................................................... 1 Lunar Science Initiative................................................................................................................... 3 Summary of Technical Sessions ...................................................................................................... 5 Workshop Program ....................................................................................................................... 15 Abstracts Prospecting for Lunar Oxygen with Gamma-Ray Spectrometry and Multispectral Imaging C. C. Allen, C. M. Weitz, and D. S. McKay ...........................................................................19 Reliability of Calculating Average Soil Composition of Apollo Landing Sites A. Basu and S. Riegsecker ....................................................................................................20 Probing Lunar Lava-Tube Caves by Radar Illumination T. Billings and E. Godshalk ..................................................................................................21 Lunar Impact Basins: Probes into the Lunar Crust D. B. J. Bussey and P. D. Spudis ..........................................................................................22 Integrating Radar, Multispectral, and Landing Site Data for Analysis of the Lunar Surface B. A. Campbell, D. B. Campbell, T. W. Thompson, and B. R. Hawke ....................................23 Another Look at Taurus Littrow: An Interactive Geographic Information System Database C. R. Coombs, J. L. Meisburger, and J. W. Nettles .....................................................................24 Exploration of the Moon with Remote Sensing, Ground-penetrating Radar, and the Regolith-evolved Gas Analyzer (REGA) B. L. Cooper, J. H. Hoffman, C. C. Allen, and D. S. McKay ..................................................25 Multispectral Mapping of the Moon by Clementine E. Eliason, A. McEwen, M. Robinson, P. Lucey, T. Duxbury, E. Malaret, C. Pieters, T. Becker, C. Isbell, and E. Lee ...........................................................................26 Lunar Prospector Neutron Measurements Compared to Clementine Iron and Titanium Abundances R. C. Elphic, S. Maurice, D. J. Lawrence, W. C. Feldman, B. L. Barraclough, A. B. Binder, and P. G. Lucey ...............................................................................................27 Deposits of Hydrogen on the Moon W. C. Feldman, S. Maurice, D. J. Lawrence, B. L. Barraclough, R. C. Elphic, and A. B. Binder ...................................................................................................................29 Integrated Multispectral and Geophysical Datasets: A Global View of Lunar Pyroclastic Deposits L. Gaddis, C. Rosanova, B. R. Hawke, C. Coombs, M. Robinson, and J. Sable .....................29 Differences Observed in Iron Content Between Crater Ejecta and Surrounding Mare Basalt Surfaces: Implications for Sample Remote Sensing Integration J. J. Gillis and P. D. Spudis ..................................................................................................31 iv Workshop on New Views of the Moon Use of a Geographic Information System Database of Bright Lunar Craters in Determining Crater Chronologies J. A. Grier, A. McEwen, R. Strom, and P. Lucey ...................................................................33 Lunar Prospector Data Archives E. A. Guinness and A. B. Binder ...........................................................................................33 The Vapor Deposition Model of Space Weathering: A Strawman Paradigm for the Moon B. Hapke ..............................................................................................................................34 On Estimating Provenances of Lunar Highland Materials L. A. Haskin and B. L. Jolliff ................................................................................................35 Multidisciplinary Studies of Ancient Mare Basalt Deposits B. R. Hawke, T. A. Giguere, P. G. Lucey, C. A. Peterson, G. J. Taylor, and P. D. Spudis...................................................................................................................37 Lunar Mare Basalt Volcanism: Stratigraphy, Flux, and Implications for Petrogenetic Evolution J. W. Head III .......................................................................................................................38 The Lunar Source Disk: Old Lunar Datasets on a New CD-ROM H. Hiesinger .........................................................................................................................40 Investigation of Lunar Mare Basalts: An Integrated Approach H. Hiesinger, R. Jaumann, G. Neukum, and J. W. Head III ...................................................41 Integrated Studies of Impact-Basin Ejecta as Probes of the Lunar Crust: Imbrium and Serenitatis B. L. Jolliff and L. A. Haskin ................................................................................................42 Surface-correlated Nanophase Iron Metal in Lunar Soils: Petrography and Space Weathering Effects L. P. Keller, S. J. Wentworth, and D. S. McKay ....................................................................44 Compositional Variation in Lunar Regolith Samples: Lateral R. L. Korotev ........................................................................................................................45 Compositional Variation in Lunar Regolith Samples: Vertical R. L. Korotev ........................................................................................................................46 On the History and Origin of LKFM R. L. Korotev ........................................................................................................................47 On the Maturity of Lunar Regolith R. L. Korotev and R. V. Morris .............................................................................................49 Early Results from the Lunar Prospector Gamma-Ray Spectrometer D. J. Lawrence, W. C. Feldman, A. B. Binder, S. Maurice, B. L. Barraclough, and R. C. Elphic ...................................................................................................................50 The Clementine Long-Wave Infrared Dataset: Brightness Temperatures of the Lunar Surface S. L. Lawson, B. M. Jakosky, H.-S. Park, and M. T. Mellon ..................................................51 LPI Contribution No. 958 v Quantitative Mineralogic and Elemental Abundance from Spectroscopy of the Moon: Status, Prospects, Limits, and a Plea P. G. Lucey ..........................................................................................................................53 The Lunar Prospector Neutron Spectrometer Dataset S. Maurice, W. C. Feldman, B. L. Barraclough, R. C. Elphic, D. J. Lawrence, and A. B. Binder .........................................................................................54 The Stratigraphy and Evolution of the Lunar Crust I. S. McCallum .....................................................................................................................54 Measurements of the Lunar Gravity Field Using a Relay Subsatellite N. Namiki, H. Hanada, N. Kawano, K. Heki, T. Iwata, M. Ogawa, T. Takano, and the RSAT/VRAD Mission Groups .................................................................55 Mare Basalts as Mantle Probes: Dichotomies Between Remotely Gathered