Abstract
This paper presents far-ultraviolet through mid-infrared (0.12–20 μm) reflectance spectra of 27 fine-particulate (<10 μm) terrestrial mineral samples, providing continuous spectra that cover an unusually broad spectral range and are of unusually fine particle size relative to most existing spectral libraries. These spectra of common geologic materials are useful for future applications that study the dust on various planetary bodies. Reflectance spectra were acquired of the samples at multiple laboratories at multiple wavelengths. All of the spectra were compared to one another to observe the general, common spectral characteristics (e.g., slope, band shape, and band depth), and the best segments of the spectra representing the mineral reflectance were scaled and spliced together to form a “Frankenspectrum” for each mineral that best represents the full wavelength range of far-ultraviolet, visible, near-infrared, and middle-infrared wavelengths. These scaled and spliced Frankenspectra, as well as the entire set of individual “original” reflectance spectra from each laboratory, are available in the Planetary Data System Geosciences Node.
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