They will characterise the huge liquid iron neutron spectrometers to verify the existence of water ice in polar craters that are permanently in shadow from the Sun's rays.
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The neutron spectrometer was a thin cylinder colocated with the Alpha Particle Spectrometer at the end of one of the three radial " Lunar Prospector " science booms.
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Preliminary analysis of data from a neutron spectrometer on board the spacecraft indicates that the total amount of water is between 2.6 billion and 26 billion gallons, Binder said.
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The spacecraft's neutron spectrometer is capable of detecting water that may lie frozen within lunar soil deep in the dark, unbearably cold bottom of craters at the lunar poles.
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The APS was a cube approximately on a side colocated with the neutron spectrometer on the end of one of the three radial " Lunar Prospector " science booms.
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This crater became of interest to scientists when the Lunar Prospector detected unusually high concentrations of hydrogen on the floor of this and other nearby craters using a neutron spectrometer.
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During a 1966 sabbatical at the Riso National Laboratory in Denmark, Mackintosh discovered a technique to quantify the magnetic moments on an atomic scale using the newly constructed neutron spectrometer.
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Preliminary analysis of data from a neutron spectrometer on board the spacecraft indicates that the total amount of water is between 2 . 6 billion and 26 billion gallons, Binder said.
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A graduate of City College of New York and Columbia University, Havens worked with James Rainwater on the construction of a neutron spectrometer, which became the subject of his doctoral thesis.
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Huntress of NASA said that Lunar Prospector's two neutron spectrometers should be able to measure the amount of hydrogen on the lunar surface to an accuracy of 50 parts per million.
