Mathematics – Logic
Scientific paper
Jan 1999
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1999lpico.988...39t&link_type=abstract
Space Resources Utilization Roundtable, p. 39
Mathematics
Logic
Weathering, Lunar Soil, Lunar Resources, Mineralogy, Moon, Lunar Bases, Lunar Rocks, Regolith, Asteroids, Deimos, Phobos
Scientific paper
Detailed knowledge of the physical, chemical, and mineralogical characteristics of the lunar soil is requisite to understanding the complex processes that have formed this soil. The nature of the weathering processes on the Moon, although markedly different from those on Earth, are the same ones that occur on most relatively smaller, 'airless' bodies in the Solar System, such as asteroids (cf., Vesta, Eros) and moons such as Phobos and Deimos. Therefore, the effects of "space weathering" on the formation of lunar soils provides the ground-truth requisite to understanding regolith development on all airless bodies. Indeed, the immediate impetus for the renewed and intensified characterization of lunar soil is driven by the desire to refine remote sensing observations. With this new knowledge comes the fringe benefits that can be directed for efficient planning of practical utilization of lunar regolith at a Lunar Base.
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