Author/Authors :
Grande، نويسنده , , M. and Maddison، نويسنده , , B.J. and Howe، نويسنده , , C.J. and Kellett، نويسنده , , B.J. and Sreekumar، نويسنده , , P. and Huovelin، نويسنده , , J. and Crawford، نويسنده , , I.A. and Duston، نويسنده , , C.L. and Smith، نويسنده , , D. and Anand، نويسنده , , M. and Bhandari، نويسنده , , N. and Cook، نويسنده , , A. and Fernandes، نويسنده , , V. and Foing، نويسنده , , B. and Gasnaut، نويسنده , , O. and Goswami، نويسنده , , J.، نويسنده ,
Abstract :
The Chandrayaan-1 X-ray Spectrometer (C1XS) is a compact X-ray spectrometer for the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) Chandrayaan-1 lunar mission. It exploits heritage from the D-CIXS instrument on ESAʹs SMART-1 mission. As a result of detailed developments to all aspects of the design, its performance as measured in the laboratory greatly surpasses that of D-CIXS. In comparison with SMART-1, Chandrayaan-1 is a science-oriented rather than a technology mission, leading to far more favourable conditions for science measurements. C1XS is designed to measure absolute and relative abundances of major rock-forming elements (principally Mg, Al, Si, Ca and Fe) in the lunar crust with spatial resolution ⩽25 FWHM km, and to achieve relative elemental abundances of better than 10%.
Keywords :
moon , Chandrayaan-1 , Space instrumentation , X-ray spectroscopy , Lunar composition
