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ODE: Moon
Mission: Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO)
PDS Imaging Node: PDS Source Information
PDS Archives: PDS Archive
Instrument: LAMP Web Site
Instrument Team Site: LAMP Team Web Site
Reflected Lyman-alpha sky-glow and starlight produce sufficient signal for even a small UV instrument like the Lyman Alpha Mapping Project to see in the Moon's permanently shadowed regions (PSR).
The LAMP investigation offers to exploit this to:
| • | Spectrally identify the locations of any exposed water-ice deposits in the Moon's PSRs |
| • | Directly map even the darkest PSRs |
| • | Demonstrate the feasibility of low-light starlight/sky-glow vision applications for operational use on future landed missions. |
LAMP is a low-risk, high-heritage investigation based on a rebuild of an existing instrument. LAMP offers to enhance the exploration and science value of LRO by:
| • | Addressing LRO-AO measurement objectives, |
| • | Testing a novel polar/night vision system for future robotic and human landed missions |
| • | Collecting lunar atmospheric science datasets that LRO would not otherwise obtain. |
LAMP Products:
Type |
Description |
Data Set |
EDR |
Experiment Data Record More information: |
LRO-L-LAMP-2-EDR-V1.0 |
RDR |
Reduced Data Record More information: |
LRO-L-LAMP-3-RDR-V1.0 |
GDR |
Gridded Data Record More information: |
LRO-L-LAMP-5-GDR-V1.0 |