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The Lunar Orbiter Laser Altimeter Investigation on the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Mission |
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| Authors: | David E Smith Maria T Zuber Glenn B Jackson John F Cavanaugh Gregory A Neumann Haris Riris Xiaoli Sun Ronald S Zellar Craig Coltharp Joseph Connelly Richard B Katz Igor Kleyner Peter Liiva Adam Matuszeski Erwan M Mazarico Jan F McGarry Anne-Marie Novo-Gradac Melanie N Ott Carlton Peters Luis A Ramos-Izquierdo Lawrence Ramsey David D Rowlands Stephen Schmidt V Stanley Scott III George B Shaw James C Smith Joseph-Paul Swinski Mark H Torrence Glenn Unger Anthony W Yu Thomas W Zagwodzki |
| Institution: | 1. Solar System Exploration Division, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, 20771, USA 2. Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, 02139-4307, USA 3. Advanced Engineering Technology Directorate, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, 20771, USA 5. Sigma Space Corporation, Lanham, MD, 20706, USA 4. Stinger Ghaffarian Technologies, Greenbelt, MD, 20770, USA |
| Abstract: | The Lunar Orbiter Laser Altimeter (LOLA) is an instrument on the payload of NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter spacecraft (LRO) (Chin et al., in Space Sci. Rev. 129:391–419, 2007). The instrument is designed to measure the shape of the Moon by measuring precisely the range from the spacecraft to the lunar surface, and incorporating precision orbit determination of LRO, referencing surface ranges to the Moon’s center of mass. LOLA has 5 beams and operates at 28 Hz, with a nominal accuracy of 10 cm. Its primary objective is to produce a global geodetic grid for the Moon to which all other observations can be precisely referenced. |
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