Possible Surface Irradiation on Vesta Detected by Reflectance Spectroscopy from the Dawn Mission: Comparison with an Irradiated Sample of the Béréba Eucrite, Asteroid (25143) Itokawa, and Mature Lunar Mare Basalts
Abstract
On two small areas of Vesta near the equator, surface irradiation may have occurred, whereas on the rest of the surface, mixing dominates the space weathering.
- Publication:
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51st Annual Lunar and Planetary Science Conference
- Pub Date:
- March 2020
- Bibcode:
- 2020LPI....51.1664C