Ice in the polar regions of the moon

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May 1981

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1981jgr....86.3949l&link_type=abstract

Journal of Geophysical Research, vol. 86, May 10, 1981, p. 3949, 3950.

Physics

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Ice, Lunar Surface, Polar Regions, Erosion, Ion Irradiation, Solar Activity Effects, Moon, Polar Regions, Ice, Erosion, Ions, Flux, Solar Wind, Energy, Magnetotail, Sublimation, Corotation

Scientific paper

Laboratory measurements of the erosion of H2O ice are used to estimate the loss rates of possible trapped volatiles in the cold lunar polar regions. The total water ice erosion rate from the various omnidirectional interplanetary and magnetospheric fluxes is of comparable magnitude to the deposition rate of one molecular H2O layer per year (about 10 to the 7th molecules/sq cm-s) as estimated by Arnold (1979). It is concluded that a significant accumulation of water frost is unlikely even in the coldest lunar polar regions which are permanently shadowed from sunlight.

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