Theory and Application
The Moon is one of most studied planetary bodies. Silicate minerals, such as orthopyroxene and clinopyroxene, olivine, and plagioclase, are the most important constituents of the lunar surface, associated with oxides and rare apatite (e.g., Papike et al. 1991).
Though olivine and pyroxene show clear spectral signature and well-defined crystal field absorption bands in the visible and near-infrared (Burns 1993), plagioclase is difficult to recognize, due to very low iron content in its crystal structure. In fact, even if it is widely acknowledged that plagioclase is one of the most important constituents of the lunar surface (Heisenger and Head 2006), its presence has been usually related to featureless spectra and interpreted as shocked plagioclase (Spudis et al. 1984; Bussey and Spudis 2000).
Only recently, the spectrometers on board lunar missions (Spectral Profiler (SP), onboard Selene, and Moon Mineralogy Mapper (M3), onboard Chandrayaan), with very high...
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Serventi, G., Carli, C., Sgavetti, M. (2014). Laboratory Analysis (Reflectance Spectroscopy) of Terrestrial Analogues. In: Cudnik, B. (eds) Encyclopedia of Lunar Science. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-05546-6_18-1
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