The Clementine Mission to the Moon: Scientific Overview

@article{Nozette1994TheCM,
  title={The Clementine Mission to the Moon: Scientific Overview},
  author={Stewart David Nozette and Pete L. Rustan and Luke Pleasance and Joseph F. Kordas and Isabella T. Lewis and H S Park and Robert E. Priest and Deirdre Horan and Paul A. Regeon and Christopher L. Lichtenberg and Eugene Merle Shoemaker and Eric M. Eliason and Alfred S. McEwen and Mark S. Robinson and Paul D. Spudis and Charles H. Acton and Bonnie J. Buratti and Thomas C. Duxbury and Daniel N. Baker and Bruce M. Jakosky and Jacques E. Blamont and Michael Corson and Joshua H. Resnick and Chris Rollins and Merton E. Davies and Paul G. Lucey and Erick R. Malaret and Mark Alan Massie and Carle M. Pieters and Robert A. Reisse and Richard A. Simpson and D. E. Smith and Todd C. Sorenson and R W Breugge and Maria T. Zuber},
  journal={Science},
  year={1994},
  volume={266},
  pages={1835 - 1839}
}
In the course of 71 days in lunar orbit, from 19 February to 3 May 1994, the Clementine spacecraft acquired just under two million digital images of the moon at visible and infrared wavelengths. These data are enabling the global mapping of the rock types of the lunar crust and the first detailed investigation of the geology of the lunar polar regions and the lunar far side. In addition, laser-ranging measurements provided the first view of the global topographic figure of the moon. The… 
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Global topographic and gravitational field models derived from data collected by the Clementine spacecraft reveal a new picture of the shape and internal structure of the moon, indicating that the structure and thermal history of the Moon are more complex than was previously believed.
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Multispectral and topographic data acquired by the Clementine spacecraft provide information on the composition and geologic history of the Aristarchus region of the moon, revealing olivine-rich materials and two kilometer-sized outcrops of anorthosite in the central peaks.
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Analysis of laser altimetry data from Clementine has confirmed and extended knowledge of nearly obliterated multiring basins on the moon, and several additional depressions seen in the data may represent previously unmapped ancient impact basins.
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