{"id":115895,"date":"2020-12-02T12:28:44","date_gmt":"2020-12-02T17:28:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/115895///news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/115895//www.ucf.edu/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/115895//news/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/115895//?p=115895"},"modified":"2024-02-09T11:55:41","modified_gmt":"2024-02-09T16:55:41","slug":"ucf-researcher-part-of-new-nasa-mission-to-map-water-on-moon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/115895///news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/115895//www.ucf.edu/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/115895//news/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/115895//ucf-researcher-part-of-new-nasa-mission-to-map-water-on-moon/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/115895//","title":{"rendered":"麻豆原创 Researcher Part of New NASA Mission to Map Water on Moon"},"content":{"rendered":"
NASA today gave a team of researchers the green light to begin building instruments that will be launched on a satellite to scan and create high-resolution maps of water on the moon./news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/115895/n
In June 2019, NASA selected the Lunar Trailblazer mission, along with three other proposed missions, for further study under its Small Innovative Missions for Planetary Exploration (SIMPLEx) program. Today, NASA gave the international team, which includes 麻豆原创 planetary geologist Kerri Donaldson Hanna, the go ahead to get ready for launch in 2025./news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/115895/n
/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/115895/u201cThere have been a lot of studies recently indicating there is water on the moon and now for the first time we/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/115895/u2019ll actually be able to identify water/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/115895/u2019s unique spectral signature with our instruments and get a better idea of whether its water, water ice or hydroxyl [compound of hydrogen and oxygen] based on that spectral signature and the measured surface temperatures,/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/115895/u201d says Donaldson Hanna, a co-investigator on the mission. /news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/115895/u201cWater is an important resource for future astronauts and robotic missions to use for anything from hydration to fuel./news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/115895/u201d/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/115895/n
Caltech planetary sciences Professor Bethany Ehlmann is leading the science portion of mission while the Jet Propulsion Lab in California will manage the flight mission for NASA. Lockheed Martin is providing the spacecraft. JPL is providing the High-resolution Volatiles and Minerals Moon mapper, a visible-shortwave infrared imaging spectrometer, and the University of Oxford is providing the Lunar Thermal Mapper, a thermal infrared imaging radiometer. The instruments will be used to scan the moon from a height of about 62 miles./news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/115895/n
Once the satellite/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/115895/u2019s solar panels are fully extended, it will measure about 11/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/115895/u00bd feet long. The satellite will spend more than a year orbiting the moon collecting data./news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/115895/n
Donaldson Hanna is a co-investigator working with the mission and an assistant professor of physics at 麻豆原创. She is tasked with making precise measurements of lunar light to better understand the geology and composition of the moon/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/115895/u2019s surface. Objects can emit their own light beyond our visible spectrum, and this infrared light is a product of surface temperature as well as composition. A thermal imager such as on this mission can measure emitted infrared light at select wavelengths, and Donaldson Hanna is fine-tuning these channels to reveal the moon/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/115895/u2019s composition./news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/115895/n