Retention time of rays around small lunar craters

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Dec 2010

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American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2010, abstract #P53C-1536

Physics

[6250] Planetary Sciences: Solar System Objects / Moon

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Fresh lunar impact craters have rays which are bright features radially expanding from host craters. It has been suggested that the rays are erased by space weathering that modify surface materials by exposure to solar wind and micrometeorite bombardments, and by impact gardening that mixes surface materials and subsurface materials by meteorite bombardments (Wilhelms, 1987). Werner and Medvedev (2010) surveyed lunar rayed craters with Clementine UVVIS images and showed that retention time of the rays of craters larger than 5 km in diameter is 750 Myr. The purpose of this research is to estimate the retention time of rays around smaller lunar craters with high-resolution multiband images from Kaguya/MI (Multiband Imager). In our research, we surveyed rayed craters using OMAT (Optical Maturity) parameter developed by Lucey et al. (2000). The OMAT parameter is the optical index representing the degree of space weathering, which is derived from multiband images. Crater rays are not only bright, but also have larger OMAT value than the background. We conducted a survey of rayed craters from 300 m to 2 km in diameter in lunar highland with MI images and MI-OMAT data. A crater size-frequency distribution (CSFD) plot is constructed for detected small rayed craters. Our preliminary result suggest that the CSFD of the rayed craters of less than 1 km in diameter falls beneath an isochrone 750 Ma, the ray retention time for large craters estimated by Werner and Medvedev (2010). This result supports an idea that the retention time of rayes depends on the crater diameter (Werner and Medvedev, 2010). Smaller craters would show shorter ray retention times.

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