Japan Geoscience Union Meeting 2016

Presentation information

Oral

Symbol P (Space and Planetary Sciences) » P-PS Planetary Sciences

[P-PS13] Lunar science and exploration

Sun. May 22, 2016 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM 104 (1F)

Convener:*Hiroshi Nagaoka(Waseda Univ.), Tomokatsu Morota(Graduate School of Environmental Studies, Nagoya University), Chikatoshi Honda(The University of Aizu), Masaki N Nishino(Institute for Space-Earth Environmental Research, Nagoya University), Chair:Tomokatsu Morota(Graduate School of Environmental Studies, Nagoya University)

9:15 AM - 9:30 AM

[PPS13-02] Global Survey of Exposure Areas of Volcanic Glass-Rich Sites on the Moon based on Hyperspectral Remote Sensing

*Satoru Yamamoto1, Ryosuke Nakamura2, Tsuneo Matsunaga1, Yoshiko Ogawa3, Yoshiaki Ishihara4, Tomokatsu Morota5, Naru Hirata3, Makiko Ohtake4, Takahiro Hiroi6, Yasuhiro Yokota7, Junichi Haruyama4 (1.NIES, 2.AIST, 3.Univ. of Aizu, 4.JAXA, 5.Nagoya Univ., 6.Brown Univ., 7.TPSG)

Keywords:remote-sensing, hyperspectral, Moon, Kaguya/SELENE

Spectral Profiler (SP) onboard SELENE/Kaguya has obtained continuous spectral reflectance data (hyperspectral data) for about 70 million points on the Moon in the visible and near-infrared wavelength ranges. Using a data ming approach with all the SP data, global distributions of large area sites with exposed end-member of various lunar major minerals have been revealed: olivine-rich sites, purest anorthosite sites, high Ca pyroxene-rich sites, low Ca pyroxene-rich sites, and spinel-rich sites. In addition to these sites, it is expected that there are exposure sites of quenched glasses from volcanic eruptions on the lunar surface. Although several remote-sensing observations for the volcanic glasses on the Moon have been reported, the global distribution of the glass-rich sites on the Moon has been unknown. Thus, we conducted the global survey using SP data to reveal the global distribution of the glass-rich sites on the Moon. From the global distribution data, we will discuss the compositional variation of the lunar mantle and/or the distribution of the amount of volatiles in the mantle.