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Experiment 6 The Surface Roughness of the Moon. Reflection and Scattering from a Planetary Surface: Part I. Surface Materials

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A taste of how astronomers really perform their research is provided in this experiment. We simulate the lunar surface by common earth soils and rocks.

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Golden, L.M. (2013). Experiment 6 The Surface Roughness of the Moon. Reflection and Scattering from a Planetary Surface: Part I. Surface Materials. In: Laboratory Experiments in Physics for Modern Astronomy. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-3311-8_6

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