Lunar soil movement registered by the Apollo 17 cosmic dust experimentThe paper describes the Lunar Ejecta and Meteorites (LEAM) experiment of the Apollo 17 flight mission, placed in the Taurus-Littrow area of the moon. The objective of the experiment was to measure impact parameters of cosmic dust on the lunar surface. Preliminary data analysis led to the recognition that the bulk of events recorded by the LEAM experiment are not signatures of hypervelocity cosmic dust particles as expected, but are induced signatures of electrostatically charged and transported lunar fines.
Document ID
19760060764
Acquisition Source
Legacy CDMS
Document Type
Conference Proceedings
Authors
Berg, O. E. (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Greenbelt, Md., United States)
Wolf, H. (Analytical Mechanics Associates, Inc. Seabrook, Md., United States)
Rhee, J. (Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology Terre Haute, Ind., United States)