The Lyman Alpha Mapping Project (LAMP) aboard LRO uses a novel method to peer into the perpetual darkness of the Moon’s so-called permanently shadowed regions. LAMP “sees” the lunar surface using the ultraviolet light from nearby space and stars, which bathes all bodies in space in a soft glow of ultraviolet light. (Courtesy NASA/Debbie McCallum)
Boulder, CO-(ENEWSPF)- Scientists using the Lyman Alpha Mapping Project (LAMP) aboard NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter have made the first spectroscopic…
