EXPERIMENTAL SPECTROPHOTOMETRIC COMPARISON OF THE SURFACE OF THE MOON AND CERTAIN VOLCANIC DEPOSITS.

• Main Author: Lebedeba,I. I.
• Other Authors: AMERICAN METEOROLOGICAL SOCIETY BOSTON MASS
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 1966
• Subjects: Astrophysics; Geology; Geochemistry and Mineralogy; (*MOON; OPTICAL PROPERTIES); (*PETROLOGY; OPTICS); EXTRATERRESTRIAL TOPOGRAPHY; EARTH(PLANET); VOLCANOES; IGNEOUS ROCK; LIGHT; REFLECTION; MEASUREMENT; SPECTROPHOTOMETERS; CORRELATION TECHNIQUES; USSR; Kamchatka
• Online Access: http://www.dtic.mil/docs/citations/AD0631970; http://oai.dtic.mil/oai/oai?&verb=getRecord&metadataPrefix=html&identifier=AD0631970

The published data on the spectral reflectivity of the lunar maria and continents are compared to corresponding data for diverse samples of terrestrial rocks from Kamchatka and Kuril Islands. These samples were studied with a photoelectric spectrophotometer (in the region 450-590 millimicron). The spectral reflectivity curves for lapilli, volcanic sand, and brown volcanic scoriae coincide with the corresponding curves for the lunar surface in the limits of natural dispersion. Therefore, one can conclude that the presence on the moon of the pyroclastic materials of the type mentioned is possible. (Author) Opyty Spektrofotometricheskogo Sopostavleniya Poverkhnosti Luny s Nekotorymi Vulkanicheskimi Pokrovami, trans. of Leningrad Univ. Uchenye Zapiski (USSR) n326 p99-102 1965.