Neutron sensors for locating sites of planetary water deposits

Technical Report · Thu Dec 31 00:00:00 EST 1998

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/304128· OSTI ID:304128

Feldman, W C; Fenimore, E E; Byrd, R C; Wiens, R C

This is the final report of a six-month, Laboratory Directed Research and Development (LDRD) project at the Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL). This project helped in exploration of the value and feasibility of use of collimated neutron detection methods for improving the sensitivity of neutron spectrometers specifically designed for deep-space missions to detect and identify both present-day deposits of near-surface water ice. The authors believed that this result helped enable a decision to include a Los Alamos-designed neutron sensor as a component of the NASA Mars Global Surveyor-01 Gamma-Ray/Neutron Spectrometer.

• Research Organization: Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE Assistant Secretary for Management and Administration, Washington, DC (United States)
• DOE Contract Number: W-7405-ENG-36
• OSTI ID: 304128
• Report Number(s): LA-UR-98-2618; ON: DE99001274; TRN: 99:003083
• Resource Relation: Other Information: PBD: [1998]
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

44 INSTRUMENTATION
INCLUDING NUCLEAR AND PARTICLE DETECTORS
66 PHYSICS
RESEARCH PROGRAMS
NEUTRON SPECTROMETERS
SPACE FLIGHT
WATER
NEUTRON DETECTION
MARS PLANET
SENSITIVITY