A hypothesis on the locations of lunar gas venting

Details A hypothesis on the locations of lunar gas venting A hypothesis on the locations of lunar gas venting

Jun 1977

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1977pepi...14..274f&link_type=abstract

(NASA and Lunar Science Institute, Special Symposium on the Recent Activity in the Moon, Houston, Tex., Mar. 16, 1976.) Physics

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Lunar Craters, Lunar Maria, Outgassing, Alpha Particles, Apollo Flights, Lunar Rocks, Lunar Surface, Transient Response, Volcanology

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Both lunar transient phenomena and Ru-222/Po-210 anomalies observed by Apollo-15 and -16 orbital alpha spectrometers display preferences for certain kinds of locations: rims of circular maria and craters with central peaks and/or dark floors. If these classes of observations are due to lunar gas venting, why are these types of locations preferred. The hypothesis offered is that these are locations at which cracks or channels exist extending deep enough into the moon to tap lunar volatile reservoirs. Possible channels include circumferential cracks around circular maria, old lava tubes for dark-floor and volcanic central-peak craters, and shattered subsurface rock structure for impact central-peak craters.

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