A Search Strategy for Aluminum in the Lunar Atmosphere

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Mar 1996

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1996lpi....27..439g&link_type=abstract

Lunar and Planetary Science, volume 27, page 439

Physics

Atmospheres, Atmospheres: Lunar, Moon

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It's reasonable to infer the presence of aluminum in the extremely tenuous lunar atmosphere if the lunar atmosphere is produced from meteoric volatization and puttering processes which can also involve the aluminum-rich lunar highlands. The presence of aluminum vapor in the lunar atmosphere can be sought as an emission line in the visible spectrum at 396.1 nm. Normally, this line would be masked by the bright reflected solar continuum, but fortunately, it is located on the shortwave side of the Fraunhofer H line of Calcium II centered at 396.8 nm, which has an equivalent width of 1.4 nm. Hence, the Aluminum I emission line should appear as a bright "spike" in the shortwave wall of the H line profile.

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