The sodium and potassium atmosphere of the moon and its interaction with the surface

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Mar 1992

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1992icar...96...27s&link_type=abstract

Icarus (ISSN 0019-1035), vol. 96, March 1992, p. 27-42.

Computer Science

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Atmospheric Composition, Lunar Atmosphere, Lunar Surface, Potassium, Sodium, Mass Spectrometers, Solar Wind, Surface Temperature, Ultraviolet Spectrometers

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Results are presented from Apollo satellite observations (from May 1988 to July 1991) of sodium and potassium in the lunar atmosphere. The observations of Na and K show a wide range of scale heights, single-component temperatures, and surface number densities, while the column abundances remain within a factor of 3. The observed trends can be explained using a model of competing release mechanisms with different dependences on solar zenith angle and resulting two-component atmospheres. The theory is applied to the budget of atomic oxygen.

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