Direct active measurements of movements of lunar dust: Rocket exhausts and natural effects contaminating and cleansing Apollo hardware on the Moon in 1969

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 36, Issue 9, 2009, Pages

  O'Brien, Brian ^a  

^a Brian J O'Brien and Associates Pty Ltd   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE MEASUREMENT; ADHESIVE FORCE; ADHESIVE PROPERTIES; APOLLO 11; DUST DETECTORS; ENVIRONMENTAL HAZARDS; LABORATORY TEST; LUNAR DUST; LUNAR EXPEDITIONS; LUNAR GRAVITY; LUNAR MODULES; SOLAR ANGLE; THEORETICAL MODELLING; WORKING ENVIRONMENT;

CELL MEMBRANES; DUST; LAGRANGE MULTIPLIERS; LUNAR MISSIONS; MANNED SPACE FLIGHT; ROCKETS;

MOON;

ADHESION; DUST; MOON; PARTICLE MOTION; SEISMOGRAPH; SILICON;

EID: 68249149185     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008GL037116     Document Type: Article

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