Effects of Fine Sediment Mantle on the Thermal Inertia Signature of Underlying Materials
Abstract
Results of modeling the effect that overlying fine sediment has on materials underneath suggest that even as little as .5 cm of overlying fine sediment essentially masks the thermal signature of any underlying material.
- Publication:
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40th Annual Lunar and Planetary Science Conference
- Pub Date:
- March 2009
- Bibcode:
- 2009LPI....40.1195S