The dust, atmosphere, and plasma at the Moon

WM Farrell, JS Halekas, M Horányi… - … in Mineralogy and …, 2023 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
The topics of lofted dust, ejected atomic and molecular species, and plasma interactions at
the Moon have made revolutionary strides since the last 'New Views of the Moon'review in …

Comparative Na and K Mercury and moon exospheres

F Leblanc, C Schmidt, V Mangano, A Mura… - Space Science …, 2022 - Springer
Sodium and, in a lesser way, potassium atomic components of surface-bounded exospheres
are among the brightest elements that can be observed from the Earth in our Solar System …

Lunar soil record of atmosphere loss over eons

NX Nie, N Dauphas, ZJ Zhang, T Hopp… - Science Advances, 2024 - science.org
The Moon has a tenuous atmosphere produced by space weathering. The short-lived nature
of the atoms surrounding the Moon necessitates continuous replenishment from lunar …

Meteoroids at the Moon: orbital properties, surface vaporization, and impact ejecta production

P Pokorný, D Janches, M Sarantos… - Journal of …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
We use a dynamical model to characterize the monthly and yearly variations of the lunar
meteoroid environment for meteoroids originating from short and long‐period comets and …

Sodium and potassium signatures of volcanic satellites orbiting close-in gas giant exoplanets

AV Oza, RE Johnson, E Lellouch… - The Astrophysical …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
Extrasolar satellites are generally too small to be detected by nominal searches. By analogy
to the most active body in the solar system, Io, we describe how sodium (Na i) and …

Dust phenomena relating to airless bodies

JR Szalay, AR Poppe, J Agarwal, D Britt… - Space Science …, 2018 - Springer
Airless bodies are directly exposed to ambient plasma and meteoroid fluxes, making them
characteristically different from bodies whose dense atmospheres protect their surfaces from …

Lunar dust: Properties and investigation techniques

IA Kuznetsov, AV Zakharov, GG Dolnikov… - Solar System …, 2017 - Springer
Physical conditions in the near-surface layer of the Moon are overviewed. This medium is
formed in the course of the permanent micrometeoroid bombardment of the lunar regolith …

Impact ejecta and gardening in the lunar polar regions

JR Szalay, P Pokorný, Z Sternovsky… - Journal of …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
The Moon is continually bombarded by interplanetary meteoroids. While many of the
meteoroid sources are near the ecliptic plane, a significant population of high‐inclination …

Meteoroids as one of the sources for exosphere formation on airless bodies in the inner solar system

D Janches, AA Berezhnoy, AA Christou… - Space Science …, 2021 - Springer
This manuscript represents a review on progress made over the past decade concerning our
understanding of meteoroid bombardment on airless solar system bodies as one of the …

The boundary of alkali surface boundary exospheres of Mercury and the Moon

M Sarantos, S Tsavachidis - Geophysical Research Letters, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Global exosphere models of alkali gases surrounding Mercury and the Moon assume that
the primary effect of the porous soil is to reduce the effective desorption rates. We …