A flying airborne telescope has managed to capture some of the most accurate dimensions ever of the brightness of the moon. The mission was the latest attempt in a long-standing search to better check the amount of sunlight that reflects off the moon. The most promising mission, called Airborne Lunar Spectral Irradiance Mission (air-LUSI), made several flights from NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in California. Researchers believe the outcomes will need to be verified with more observations. But so far, scientists are convinced that the flights in November will be “of important use to the satellite-calibration community.
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