Solar Wind‐Induced Water Cycle on the Moon

The solar wind has been implicated as a source of water on airless bodies such as the Moon, asteroids, and possibly Mercury, yet a kinetic and mechanistic chemical model consistent with present‐day observational data is still lacking. Utilizing available data sets on temperature‐driven water formati...

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Published in:	Geophysical research letters 2018-10, Vol.45 (20), p.10,959-10,967
Main Authors:	Jones, Brant M., Aleksandrov, Alex, Hibbitts, K., Dyar, M. D., Orlando, Thomas M.
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Subjects:	Adsorption Aluminum oxide Asteroids Ballistic trajectories Bombardment Data Defects Desorption Exploration Heavy metals Hydrologic cycle Hydrological cycle Implantation Low temperature Lunar maria Lunar regolith Lunar surface Mercury Mercury (metal) Mercury surface Metal oxides Metallurgical constituents Moon Optical communication Organic chemistry Oxides Photodissociation Regolith Silica Silicon dioxide Solar wind Surface chemistry Temperature Thermal transformations Titanium dioxide Water
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