Title :
China Lunar Probe Chang´e-1 Microwave Sounder — Design and some results
Author :
Jiang, Jingshan ; Wang, Zhenzhan ; Zhang, Xiaohui ; Li, Yun ; Wang, Xuefei ; Wang, Tao
Author_Institution :
Center for Space Sci. & Appl. Res., Chinese Acad. of Sci. (CSSAR, Beijing, China
Abstract :
Chang´e-1 Microwave Sounder (CELMS) is a main payload of Chang´e-1 Moon Orbit Satellite in the first stage of China Lunar Probe. CELMS is a four-frequency microwave radiometer with frequencies 3GHz, 7.8GHz, 19.35GHz and 37GHz. During the one year and four months´ working in lunar orbit, it got huge scientific data covering full moon surface and obtained the world first global lunar microwave emission measurements. Moreover, we obtained the world first the microwave brightness temperature map in global scale and established the Microwave Moon (MicM). MicM consists of global microwave brightness temperature maps, lunar pole microwave anomalies feature maps, microwave emission feature maps for some special areas of the lunar surface.
Keywords :
Moon; astronomical instruments; microwave measurement; remote sensing; space vehicles; CELMS; Chang´e-1 Microwave Sounder; Chang´e-1 Moon Orbit Satellite; China lunar probe; MicM; Microwave Moon; four-frequency microwave radiometer; frequency 19.35 GHz; frequency 3 GHz; frequency 37 GHz; frequency 7.8 GHz; full moon surface; global lunar microwave emission measurements; lunar orbit; microwave brightness temperature map; scientific data; Calibration; Estimation; Microwave imaging; Microwave measurements; Microwave radiometry; Microwave technology; Moon;
Conference_Titel :
Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), 2010 IEEE International
Conference_Location :
Honolulu, HI
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-9565-8
Electronic_ISBN :
2153-6996
DOI :
10.1109/IGARSS.2010.5650838