Ion emission from micrometeorite impacts on atmosphereless planets

Details Ion emission from micrometeorite impacts on atmosphereless planets Ion emission from micrometeorite impacts on atmosphereless planets

Apr 1980

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1980m%26p....22..185w&link_type=abstract

(Laboratorio di Astrofisica Spaziale di Frascati, European Workshop on Planetary Sciences, Rome, Italy, Apr. 23-27, 1979.) Moon

Astronomy and Astrophysics

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Ion Emission, Lunar Surface, Mercury (Planet), Meteorite Collisions, Micrometeorites, Natural Satellites, Planetary Surfaces, Flux Density, Hypervelocity Impact, Jupiter (Planet), Surface Layers, Surface Temperature, Ultraviolet Radiation

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Conclusions have been drawn on the generation of intensive high-velocity ions and atoms fluxes on the surfaces of the moon, Mercury and the atmosphereless satellites of Jupiter by micrometeorite impacts. About 30% of each flux is ejected at small angles and detained by planetary reliefs, forming surface-active layer of alkalines. The combined erosional effect of that layer, the thermocycling and the radiational tracks have been studied. The ion fluxes leaving Jupiter's atmosphereless satellites may well be one of the main sources of the short UV-emission in their vicinities.

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