Computer Science
Scientific paper
Sep 1979
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1979mit..reptq....s&link_type=abstract
Final Report, 1 Feb. 1971 - 30 Jun. 1979 Massachusetts Inst. of Tech., Cambridge. Dept. of Earth and Planetary Sciences.
Computer Science
Lunar Rocks, Microcracks, Petrography, Selenology, Electron Microscopy, Mechanical Properties, Stress Distribution
Scientific paper
Lunar samples contain abundant open microcracks that have closure characteristics completely unlike any shocked terrestrial rock; however, the microcracks present in the lunar rocks before the rocks reached the surface of the moon were likely similar to the microcracks in the shocked terrestrial rocks. Because the microcracks present in the lunar rocks in situ inside the moon were different, radically different, from the microcracks present today in returned lunar samples, any property that is sensitive to microcracks measured on the returned lunar samples is inappropriate for predicting that property as a function of depth in the moon. Therefore, many data that have been measured already on lunar samples simply do not apply to rocks in situ inside the moon. A plausible mechanism with which to account for the difference in microcrack characteristics of lunar samples on the surface of the moon and the microcrack characteristics of lunar rock in situ inside the moon is thermal cycling during residence on the moon's surface.
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