Phenomenology of soil erosion due to rocket exhaust on the Moon and the Mauna Kea lunar test site

Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets

Volumn 116, Issue 6, 2011, Pages

  Metzger, Philip T ^a   Smith, Jacob ^b   Lane, John E ^a  

^a KENNEDY SPACE CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII AT HILO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DUST; LUNAR SOIL; MOON; PHOTOGRAPHY; SOIL EROSION; TEPHRA;

EID: 79960162088     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010JE003745     Document Type: Article

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