Lunar surface: Dust dynamics and regolith mechanics

Reviews of Geophysics

Volumn 45, Issue 2, 2007, Pages

  Colwell, J E ^a,b   Batiste, S ^b   Horanyi M ^b   Robertson, S ^b   Sture, S ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^c University of Colorado at Boulder   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERPLANETARY DUST; LUNAR SOIL; MOON; PLANETARY SURFACE; PLASMA; REGOLITH;

EID: 34548233814     PISSN: 87551209     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2005RG000184     Document Type: Review

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