Robotic search for ices and hydrous minerals at the lunar poles using a combined X-ray diffraction and fluorescence instrument

Details Robotic search for ices and hydrous minerals at the lunar poles using a combined X-ray diffraction and fluorescence instrument Robotic search for ices and hydrous minerals at the lunar poles using a combined X-ray diffraction and fluorescence instrument

Dec 2002

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2002p%26ss...50.1361s&link_type=abstract

Planetary and Space Science, Volume 50, Issue 14-15, p. 1361-1368.

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There is a growing body of evidence that points to the survival of water or hydrous minerals on the Moon and the potential for large aqueous reservoirs in shadowed craters at the lunar poles. CheMin, an XRD/XRF instrument that is currently under development, could provide a definitive test of whether the polar hydrogen signal measured by the recent Lunar Prospector mission is an indication of a significant water reservoir or merely reflects an anomalously rich accumulation of solar-wind hydrogen. Proposed enhancements of CheMin could be used in conjunction with a drilling system capable of penetrating the upper few tens of centimeters of the lunar regolith to search for ices or hydrous minerals. This advanced version of the CheMin instrument would be within the size, mass, and power constraints of Ariane 5 micromissions.

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