Direct measurement of hydroxyl in the lunar regolith and the origin of lunar surface water

Nature Geoscience

Volumn 5, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 779-782

  Liu, Yang ^a   Guan, Yunbin ^b   Zhang, Youxue ^c   Rossman, George R ^b   Eiler, John M ^b   Taylor, Lawrence A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASTEROID; FTIR SPECTROSCOPY; HYDROGEN ISOTOPE; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; LUNAR SOIL; MERCURY (PLANET); MICROMETEORITE; MOON; REGOLITH; REMOTE SENSING; SOLAR WIND; SURFACE WATER; WIND DIRECTION;

EID: 84868595731     PISSN: 17520894     EISSN: 17520908     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ngeo1601     Document Type: Article

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