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.
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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 ...
Aug 9, 2006 · [1] New models have been computed for the Lunar Prospector (LP) thermal and epithermal neutron counting rates using the particle transport ...
In March 1998, NASA announced that data from Lunar Prospector suggested the presence of water ice at both the lunar poles. The neutron spectrometer instrument ...
The Lunar Prospector's Neutron Spectrometer (NS) instrument measured the flux of ejected neutrons in four energy ranges [thermal neutrons (0 to 0.4 eV) ...
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 ...