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Clementine star tracker view of the Moon and Venus in the distance. The Clementine High-Resolution Camera consisted of a telescope with an image intensifier and a frame-transfer CCD imager. The imaging system was designed to study selected portions of the surfaces of the Moon and the near-Earth asteroid 1620 Geographos, although the asteroid ...
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Clementine image of Aristarchus and surroundings mapped onto simulated topography. NASA photo. Spectra taken of this crater during the Clementine mission were used to perform mineral mapping. [2] The data indicated that the central peak is a type of rock called anorthosite, which is a slow-cooling form of igneous rock composed of plagioclase ...
Clementine mission star tracker image of Moon and Venus. On 20 July 2011, scientists performed experiments with the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera (LROC) to attempt to detect a weak signal of lunar horizon glow. The experiment was done jointly with the Lyman-Alpha Mapping Project (LAMP), Narrow Angle Camera (NAC), and Wide Angle Camera ...
Multispectral images obtained from these missions showed that this basin contains more FeO and TiO 2 than typical lunar highlands, [12] and hence has a darker appearance. The topography of the basin was mapped in its entirety for the first time using altimeter data and the analysis of stereo image pairs taken during the Clementine mission.
The Clementine spacecraft obtained the first nearly global cartograph (map) of the lunar topography, and also multispectral images. Successive missions transmitted photographs of increasing resolution.
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On January 25, 1994, Clementine was launched from Space Launch Complex 4 West at Vandenberg Air Force Base, California, using a Titan II launch vehicle. The mission had two phases. After two Earth flybys, lunar insertion was achieved approximately one month after launch. Lunar mapping took place over approximately two months, in two parts.