Optics of the Moon (eBook)

Vadym Kaydash, Yuriy Shkuratov, Gorden Videen (Autoren)

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2025 | 1. Auflage
400 Seiten
Elsevier Science (Verlag)
978-0-12-817973-4 (ISBN)

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Optics of the Moon offers a modern approach to lunar remote sensing. It presents methods for interpreting optics of surfaces with complicated structures, in particular, the lunar regolith. For example, this book illustrates how phase-ratio techniques can lead to the detection of surface structure anomalies and describes polarimetric studies of the lunar surface and their use. This book addresses many questions related to the surfaces of the Moon, such as why the Moon looks like a ball at a large phase angle and like a disk in full moon, why the lunar surface has slight color variations, and why at large phase angles its polarization degree closely correlates with albedo. Including historical perspectives, case studies, maps, and figures to enhance the understanding of both theory and techniques, Optics of the Moon is a valuable resource for researchers and students in lunar and planetary science and remote sensing. - Includes case studies, maps, and color figures to illustrate concepts clearly with a specific application to the Moon - Presents theories alongside experimental and observational data to support and describe modern techniques - Communicates new approaches and methods related to the optics of lunar surfaces

Professor Yuriy Shkuratov is Department Head for the Astronomy Department at V.N. Karazin Kharkiv National University. He was also the Director of the Astronomical Institute of V.N. Karazin Kharkiv National University from 2004-2014. He is also Leading Research Scientist of Radio Astronomy Institute of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. He has more than 700 scientific publications devoted to the investigation of optical properties of solid surfaces of celestial bodies and arbitrary shaped particles. These works include chapters for seven collective monographs. He first obtained images of polarimetric anomalies of the Moon at large phase angles. He has performed numerous laboratory photometric and polarimetric measurements of structure analogs of the lunar regolith, which provide a reliable experimental basis for the verification and selection of theoretical models for the opposition effect and negative polarization. He has contributed theoretical models of light scattering by particles and surfaces with complicated structure. In particular, he first proposed the model of negative polarization based on the mechanism of coherent backscatter enhancement.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 16.1.2025
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Astronomie / Astrophysik
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Optik
• ISBN-10: 0-12-817973-2 / 0128179732
• ISBN-13: 978-0-12-817973-4 / 9780128179734