Abstract
However, the experiments conducted by Galileo, Clementine, and Lunar Prospector have left significant gaps that can befilled by ground-based thermal JR observations of the Moon during lunar eclipse. We have initiated a program to observe theMoon during eclipse a several observatories globally. The first observations in this program were made from the AEOS and1 .6-rn telescopes at the Maui Space Surveillance Site on Haleakala mountain on the island of Maui, Hawaii. The eclipseobserved was partial, that is, the shadow of the Earth did not cover the entire lunar disk, but about 40% of the lunar surfacedid experience total eclipse. Obtaining thermal properties from areas not in total eclipse is difficult at best, and the night ofthe observations the conditions were not photometric, limiting some kinds of modeling. However, a variety of results wereobtained from areas of the Moon where local eclipse conditions were total.
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