Temperature and duration of the shadow of a recently-arrived lunar boulder
Abstract
Natural thermoluminescence retained by soil samples from the shadows of some Apollo 17 boulders and from an adjacent sunlit area has been used to derive the temperature in the shade and the length of time for which the shadow has been cast in one case. This has implications for soil mechanics on the lunar surface.
- Publication:
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Nature
- Pub Date:
- March 1977
- DOI:
- 10.1038/266411a0
- Bibcode:
- 1977Natur.266..411D
- Keywords:
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- Lunar Shadow;
- Lunar Soil;
- Lunar Temperature;
- Soil Mechanics;
- Temperature Measurement;
- Time Dependence;
- Computer Techniques;
- Luminescence;
- Lunar Rocks;
- Lunar Surface;
- Radiation Effects;
- Lunar and Planetary Exploration