The Neutron Spectrometer (NS) was designed to detect minute amounts of water ice that may exist on the Moon. It was also used to measure the abundance of solar- ...
Description. The Lunar Prospector Neutron Spectrometer (NS) is designed to detect small amounts of hydrogen which may exist on or near the Moon's surface.
Lunar Prospector was the third mission selected by NASA for full development and construction as part of the Discovery Program. At a cost of $62.8 million, ...
Aug 9, 2006 · [1] New models have been computed for the Lunar Prospector (LP) thermal and epithermal neutron counting rates using the particle transport ...
The neutron spectrometer provided independent evidence for ice at the lunar poles. Neutrons are produced by cosmic ray interaction with atoms about a meter ...
NASA's Lunar Prospector orbited the Moon for almost 19 months to map its surface composition and to look for polar ice. The probe found evidence suggesting ...
Lunar Prospector carries a gamma-ray spectrometer (GRS) and a neutron spectrometer (NS) which together, will provide global maps of the major element (O, Si, Fe ...
The Lunar Prospector Neutron Spectrometer (NS) consists of twoidentical 5 cm diameter by 20 cm long helium-3 filled gas proportionalcounters. One counter is ...
Oct 31, 2023 · The thermal neutron counting rate is defined as the counting rate difference per 32 seconds between the two detectors and corresponds to ...
Oct 13, 2021 · Abstract. We use data from the Lunar Prospector Neutron Spectrometer to make the second space-based measurement of the free neutron lifetime ...