Sentence examples for map of the lunar from inspiring English sources

That should yield a detailed map of the lunar crust, and how its thickness varies from place to place.

Using four-way Doppler and differential VLBI techniques, the global map of the lunar gravity field was substantially improved.

The unmanned probe will create a high-resolution map of the lunar surface and the minerals below it, and includes two instruments made by NASA.

So what happened is, we were able to make a map of the lunar crust that gave us the thickness of the crust and the volume.

India's first lunar mission, Chandrayaan I, orbited from 8 November 2008 until loss of contact on 27 August 2009, creating a high resolution chemical, mineralogical and photo-geological map of the lunar surface, and confirming the presence of water molecules in lunar soil.

The primary objectives of this mission were topographic, mineral and chemical mapping of the lunar surface to understand the evolutionary history of the Moon and search for water and processes responsible for transport of volatiles on the lunar surface.

One significant accomplishment of the Clementine mission was the laser altimeter mapping of the lunar topography, which resulted in an improved knowledge of the Moon's internal structure and its thermal history (Zuber et al., 1994).

Due to increased resolution and extended high correlations with topography, maps of the lunar gravity field such as from our local south pole model have the potential to improve the geophysical interpretation of small-scale features on the Moon.

The Diviner survey has provided the first chemical map of the entire lunar surface, he added.

Above all, the recent successful mission of the Japanese lunar orbiter SELENE (KAGUYA) equipped with a Ge gamma ray spectrometer is expected to report drastically improved global mapping data of the lunar surface composition (Hasebe et al., 2008, 2009).

Therefore, a systematic, high-resolution mapping of the entire lunar surface, particularly the farside, is a primary objective of the SELENE mission.