日本地球惑星科学連合2016年大会

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[P-PS13] 月の科学と探査

2016年5月22日(日) 17:15 〜 18:30 ポスター会場 (国際展示場 6ホール)

コンビーナ:*長岡 央(早稲田大学先進理工学部)、諸田 智克(名古屋大学大学院環境学研究科)、本田 親寿(会津大学)、西野 真木(名古屋大学宇宙地球環境研究所)

17:15 〜 18:30

[PPS13-P10] 将来の月着陸探査機搭載能動型蛍光X線分光計の概要とその開発状況

*長岡 央1長谷部 信行1草野 広樹2天野 嘉春2柴村 英道2太田 亨3Fagan Timothy3内藤 雅之1 (1.早稲田大学先進理工学部、2.早稲田大学理工学研究所、3.早稲田大学教育学部地球科学専修)

キーワード:能動型蛍光X線分光計、着陸探査

Recent Chinese lunar landing mission (Chang’E 3) was successful in landing on the surface of the Moon after their twice successful remote observations. The landing mission investigated the elemental compositions of landing sites in more detail, and obtained new “ground truth” by using alpha particle X-ray spectrometer, which could have not been provided by any returned samples.
The compositions of major elements as Mg, Al, Si, K, Ca, Ti, Fe of landing site help us to understand its petrogenesis and evolution. In Japan, the global investigation of Kaguya promoted our knowledge and understanding of the origin and evolution of the Moon. The landing and/or sample-returned missions in the future will be followed in order to investigate the geology in more details, in the next.
We have been developing the active X-ray spectrometer (AXS) as elemental analyzer on site, in order to prepare for future lunar landing mission. Present AXS consists of active X-ray generators with pyroelectric crystal (LiTaO3), and a silicon drift detector (SDD). Here, the present status of development is reported, and the instrumental performance of AXS and the observation targets of AXS will be discussed.