An Experimental Analog to Maturing Lunar Soil

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Mar 1996

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Lunar and Planetary Science, volume 27, page 13

Physics

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Maturity, Regolith, Soil: Lunar, Weathering: Space

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Maturation, caused by a combination of processes known as space weathering, changes the optical properties of exposed lunar soil. Changes include darkening, masking of spectral features and increasing the continuum slope. These optical effects have been attributed to increasing concentrations of agglutinitic glass containing nanometer-scale iron metal particles. We have developed an analog material, consisting of 6-nm iron metal particles on a silica gel substrate. Changes in the VIS/NIR reflectance spectrum of this material with changing concentration of iron metal closely approximate the changes induced by natural maturation in lunar soil.

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