Full Moon exploration

Crawford, Ian; Joy, K. H.; Fagents, S. A.

doi:10.1111/j.1468-4004.2007.48318.x

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“…3d, e). In effect, they are time capsules (McKay et al 1986(McKay et al , 1989Korotev 1996;Spudis and Taylor 2009;Crawford et al 2007Crawford et al , 2009Joy et al 2011aJoy et al , b, 2012Fagan et al 2014): once they have been turned from a soil into a coherent rock they are closed to solar wind exposure and can no longer acquire a meteoritic component. The timing of this closure event (i.e.…”

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“…Fig. 5), between a lava flow and an overlying pyroclastic deposit, and regolith buried by crater ejecta blankets and/or impact melt flows (Crawford et al 2007McKay 2009;.…”

Section: Palaeoregolithsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Modified from Crawford et al (2007). This model could also be applicable for regolith units that are sandwiched between, or buried under, pyroclastic picritic glass bead deposits (McKay 2009) or buried under impact ejecta blankets (with the caveat that such ejecta emplacement may also contribute to a debris of ballistic sedimentation and mixing of the buried regolith layer) (McKay 2009) Identifying trapped palaeoregoliths will require using a variety of techniques to identify suitable stratigraphic horizons (Crawford et al 2007). Such methods include: (1) ground penetrating radar techniques either from orbit (such as those made by the Kaguya spacecraft, e.g. )…”

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confidence: 99%

“…6e, f: Zanetti et al 2011;Kickapoo Lunar Research Team and Kramer 2013). If suitable outcrops cannot be located, accessing these archives will then require deep drilling through overlying rock units (Crawford et al 2007). Although challenging technologically, drilling would result in recovery of more pristine palaeoregolith samples than is likely to be possible from sampling outcrops at the surface.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Acknowledgments Material in this review article has been brought together from work published previously by , Crawford et al (2007), Joy et al (2011aJoy et al ( , b, 2012, Joy (2014), and Fagan et al (2014). We thank two anonymous reviewers for their helpful suggestions to improve the manuscript, and Dr. Gudipati for editorial handling.…”

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The Moon: An Archive of Small Body Migration in the Solar System

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The Moon is an archive of impact cratering in the Solar System throughout the past 4.5 billion years. It preserves this record better than larger, more complex planets like the Earth, Mars and Venus, which have largely lost their ancient crusts through geological reprocessing and hydrospheric/atmospheric weathering. Identifying the parent bodies of impactors (i.e. asteroid bodies, comets from the Kuiper belt or the Oort Cloud) provides geochemical and chronological constraints for models of Solar System dynamics, helping to better inform our wider understanding of the evolution of the Solar System and the transfer of small bodies between planets. In this review article, we discuss the evidence for populations of impactors delivered to the Moon at different times in the past. We also propose approaches to the identification and characterisation of meteoritic material on the Moon in the context of future lunar exploration efforts.

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“…Fig. 5), between a lava flow and an overlying pyroclastic deposit, and regolith buried by crater ejecta blankets and/or impact melt flows (Crawford et al 2007McKay 2009;.…”

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The Moon as a Recorder of NearbySupernovae

Crawford¹

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The lunar geological record is expected to contain a rich record of the Solar System's galactic environment, including records of nearby (i.e. ≤ a few tens of parsecs) supernova explosions. This record will be composed of two principal components: (i) cosmogenic nuclei produced within, as well as radiation damage to, surface materials caused by increases in the galactic cosmic ray flux resulting from nearby supernovae; and (ii) the direct collection of supernova ejecta, likely enriched in a range of unusual and diagnostic isotopes, on the lunar surface. Both aspects of this potentially very valuable astrophysical archive will be best preserved in currently buried, but nevertheless near-surface, layers that were directly exposed to the space environment at known times in the past and for known durations. Suitable geological formations certainly exist on the Moon, but accessing them will require a greatly expanded programme of lunar exploration.

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The Moon as a Recorder of Nearby Supernovae

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Full Moon exploration

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The Moon: An Archive of Small Body Migration in the Solar System

The Moon: An Archive of Small Body Migration in the Solar System

The Moon as a Recorder of NearbySupernovae

The Moon as a Recorder of Nearby Supernovae

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