Lunar dust motion

dc.contributor.advisor	Criswell, David R.
dc.coverage.spatial	Moon
dc.date.accessioned	2020-05-08T21:13:53Z
dc.date.available	2020-05-08T21:13:53Z
dc.date.issued	1972
dc.identifier.citation	Criswell, D.R., 1972. Lunar Dust Motion, in: Proceedings of the Third Lunar Science Conference. The MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass., pp. 2671–2680.	en
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11753/1518
dc.description.abstract	Surveyor 7 photographed a bright glow along the western lunar horizon one hour after local sunset. This horizon glow must result from the forward scattering of sunlight by a swarm of dust grains extending 3 to 30 centimeters above the local horizon with a column density of 5 grains/ cm2. The observable glow is evoked by grains approximately 6 microns in radius. An annual churning rate of 10-3 gr/cm2 is implied. A model is presented for dust cloud production in terms of electrostatic levitation of lunar surface fines.	en
dc.description.statementofresponsibility	David R. Criswell, The Lunar Science Institute, 3303 NASA Road 1, Houston, Texas 77058
dc.format.extent	Pages 2671-2680
dc.format.mimetype	application/pdf
dc.language.iso	en	en
dc.publisher	Pergamon Press	en
dc.relation.ispartof	Proceedings of the Third Lunar Science Conference
dc.relation.ispartofseries	LSI contribution ; no. 95
dc.subject	Dust--Electric properties	en
dc.subject	Lunar dust.	en
dc.title	Lunar dust motion	en
dc.type	Book chapter	en

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