Sublimation pressures of common volatiles at low temperature and maps of supervolatile cold traps on the Moon

Schörghofer, Norbert; Williams, Jean-Pierre

doi:10.1016/j.icarus.2024.116086

Icarus

2024

DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2024.116086

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Sublimation pressures of common volatiles at low temperature and maps of supervolatile cold traps on the Moon

Norbert Schörghofer,

Jean-Pierre Williams

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The Faustini Permanently Shadowed Region on the Moon

Williams,

Mahanti,

Robinson

et al. 2024

Planet. Sci. J.

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Faustini crater (41 km diameter) hosts a large (664 km2) permanently shadowed region (PSR) with a high potential to harbor water-ice deposits. One of the 13 candidate Artemis III landing areas contains a portion of the crater rim and proximal ejecta. The ShadowCam instrument aboard the Korea Pathfinder Lunar Orbiter provides detailed images of the PSR within Faustini. We characterize the terrain and thermal environment within the Faustini PSR from ShadowCam images, Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter thermal measurements and laser ranging, and thermal modeling. Our mapping revealed three distinct areas of the floor of Faustini based on elevations, slopes, and surface roughness. These units broadly correlate with temperatures; thus, they may be influenced by variations in volatile sublimation. Crater retention and topographic diffusion rates appear to be asymmetric across the floor, likely due to differences in maximum and average temperatures. Several irregular depressions and a pronounced lobate-rim crater are consistent with subsurface ice. However, differences in the thicknesses of deposited materials on the floor may also explain the asymmetry. Additionally, zones of elevated surface roughness across Faustini appear to result from overprinted crater ray segments, possibly from Tycho and Jackson craters. Mass wasting deposits and pitting on opposite sides of the crater wall may have resulted from the low-angle delivery of material ejected by the Shackleton crater impact event, suggesting that the Artemis III candidate landing region named “Faustini Rim A” will contain material from Shackleton.

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The Faustini Permanently Shadowed Region on the Moon

Williams,

Mahanti,

Robinson

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Planet. Sci. J.

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Sublimation pressures of common volatiles at low temperature and maps of supervolatile cold traps on the Moon

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