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Mapping the Moon: Simulating LOLA in the Classroom
Introduction to LIDAR Mapping with LOLA.
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
www.nasa.gov
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What is a satellite?
• Is it just a spacecraft?
• What do all satellites have in common?
• What do all those instruments do?
• And what kind of data is collected? They all have to do what?
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Examples of measurement quantities?
• Distance
• Volume
• Time
• Velocity/speed
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How are they all related?
• RADAR (Radio Detection and Ranging)
i.e. Our friendly neighborhood policeperson
• SONAR (Sound Navigation and Ranging)
i.e. Bathymetry of ocean floor
• LIDAR (Light Detection and Ranging)
i.e. LOLA (Lunar Orbiter Laser Altimeter)
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How does LOLA work?
• Laser pulses bounce off the surface.
• The time taken by the light to travel to the surface and back is measured.
LOLA is capable of timing pulses with a precision of 0.6 nanoseconds, corresponding to a distance error of no more than 10 cm.
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How do we “see” the topography?
• Signals that LOLA receives will be transferred to create a topographic map. But how is that actually constructed?
• One swath equals one cross-sectional slice of the surface.
• Multiple parallel scans can yield a contour representation
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• For each “satellite orbit” the motion detector is moved once across the surface
• The frame is then moved 5 cm, and the process is repeated until the entire surface has been scanned
• If Lunar Land is 150 cm x 150 cm, how many scans will be required to complete the map?
• If the “orbit” lasts for 15 seconds, what should the sampling rate be to collect 30 data points per orbit?
Mapping with the Ultra-Sound Motion detector
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