Surface-Related Mercury in Lunar Samples

Details Surface-Related Mercury in Lunar Samples Surface-Related Mercury in Lunar Samples

Apr 1971

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1971sci...172..258r&link_type=abstract

Science, Volume 172, Issue 3980, pp. 258-261

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Lunar samples contain mercury, which may be volatilized at lunar daytime temperatures. Such mercury may constitute part of the tenuous lunar atmosphere. If mercury can escape from the atmosphere by a nonthermal mechanism, an interior reservoir or exterior sources (such as meteorite infall or solar wind, or both) are required to replenish it. Core samples exhibit an increase in surface-related mercury with depth, which suggests that a cold trap exists below the surface. The orientation of rocks on the lunar surface may be inferred by differences in the amounts of surface-related mercury found on exterior and interior samples.

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