Add to ORKGThe Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter/Lyman Alpha Mapping Project (LAMP) ultraviolet instrument detected a 0.52% icy regolith mix on the floor of some of the southern pole permanently shadowed craters of the Moon. We present calculations indicating that most or all of this icy regolith detected by LAMP (sensed to a depth of <1 m) has to be relatively youngless than 2,000 years olddue to the surface erosional loss by plasma sputtering (external ionized gassurface interactions), meteoric impact vaporization, and meteoric impact ejection. These processes, especially meteoric impact ejection, will disperse water along the crater floor, even onto warm regions where it will then undergo desorption. We have determined that there should be a water exosp...
International audienceThere is increasing theoretical and empirical evidence, from the Apollo era an...
It has long been suggested that water ice can exist in extremely cold regions near the lunar poles, ...
We suggest that energization processes like ion sputtering and impact vaporization can eject/release...
[1] Many regions near the lunar poles are currently cold enough that surface water ice would be stab...
In order to assess the thermal stability of polar ice deposits, we present model calculated temperat...
Following the Apollo era the moon was considered a volatile poor body. Samples collected from the Ap...
We present an investigation of the release and transport of lunar polar crater volatiles onto topsid...
Following the Apollo era the moon was considered a volatile poor body. Samples collected from the Ap...
Shackleton crater is nearly coincident with the Moon’s south pole. Its interior receives almost no d...
We present simulations of space weathering effects on ice deposits in regions of permanent shadow on...
The northern floor and wall of Amundsen crater, near the lunar south pole, is a permanently shaded r...
[1] On 9 October 2009, the Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS) mission impacted ...
We find that the reflectance of the lunar surface within 5 ° of latitude of the South Pole increases...
Following Svitek (Martian Water Frost: Control of Global Distribution by Small-Scale Processes, Ph.D...
Diviner Lunar Radiometer Experiment surface-temperature maps reveal the existence of widespread surf...
International audienceThere is increasing theoretical and empirical evidence, from the Apollo era an...
It has long been suggested that water ice can exist in extremely cold regions near the lunar poles, ...
We suggest that energization processes like ion sputtering and impact vaporization can eject/release...
[1] Many regions near the lunar poles are currently cold enough that surface water ice would be stab...
In order to assess the thermal stability of polar ice deposits, we present model calculated temperat...
Following the Apollo era the moon was considered a volatile poor body. Samples collected from the Ap...
We present an investigation of the release and transport of lunar polar crater volatiles onto topsid...
Following the Apollo era the moon was considered a volatile poor body. Samples collected from the Ap...
Shackleton crater is nearly coincident with the Moon’s south pole. Its interior receives almost no d...
We present simulations of space weathering effects on ice deposits in regions of permanent shadow on...
The northern floor and wall of Amundsen crater, near the lunar south pole, is a permanently shaded r...
[1] On 9 October 2009, the Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS) mission impacted ...
We find that the reflectance of the lunar surface within 5 ° of latitude of the South Pole increases...
Following Svitek (Martian Water Frost: Control of Global Distribution by Small-Scale Processes, Ph.D...
Diviner Lunar Radiometer Experiment surface-temperature maps reveal the existence of widespread surf...
International audienceThere is increasing theoretical and empirical evidence, from the Apollo era an...
It has long been suggested that water ice can exist in extremely cold regions near the lunar poles, ...
We suggest that energization processes like ion sputtering and impact vaporization can eject/release...