Character and Spatial Distribution of OH/H2O on the Surface of the Moon Seen by M3 on Chandrayaan-1

By Carle M. Pieters, J. Goswami, R. Clark, M. Annadurai, J. Boardman, B. Buratti, J. Combe, Melinda Darby Dyar, Robert O. Green, James W. Head III and 19 more. Science, 2009

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Mercury’s Weather-Beaten Surface: Understanding Mercury in the Context of Lunar and Asteroidal Space Weathering Studies (2014, background): “This steady state is consistent with the detection of hydroxyl and water signatures over the lunar surface (Vilas et al. 2008; Clark 2009; Pieters et al. 2009; Sunshine et al. 2009; McCord et al. 2011).”
DETECTION OF WIDESPREAD HYDRATED MATERIALS ON VESTA BY THE VIR IMAGING SPECTROMETER ON BOARD THE DAWN MISSION (2012, background): “On the Moon, the measured absorption depths of OH (A color version of this figure is available in the online journal.) and/or H2O increase dramatically with latitude beyond 45◦ and appear to vary as a function of the local time of day (Pieters et al. 2009; Sunshine et al. 2009; McCord et al. 2011).”
Initial results for the north pole of the Moon from Mini‐SAR, Chandrayaan‐1 mission (2010, background): “The recent discovery of significant amounts of mobile water in the higher latitudes of the Moon [Pieters et al., 2009] may provide one source for the polar ice inferred from these measurements.”
Sources and physical processes responsible for OH/H2O in the lunar soil as revealed by the Moon Mineralogy Mapper (M3) (2011, methodology): “…Moon, can come from three sources: (1) indigenous from the original material forming the Moon; (2) infall of meteorite and cometary material containing water or hydroxyl; and (3) from processes associated with the solar wind irradiating the surface material that can actually produce such compounds.”
Thermal removal from near‐infrared imaging spectroscopy data of the Moon (2011, background): “…enables removal of thermal emission in the presence of water absorptions (Figure 5, spectrum C), whereas the M3 data (Figure 5, spectrum D) show no apparent excess above the projection from shorter wavelengths, and thus no temperature can be derived and no thermal emission component is removed.”
Lunar resources (2014, background): “However, it is worth pointing out that some samples from the Apollo 14 and 15 landing sites within the PKT actually have REE abundances several (typically 2 to 4) times higher than the urKREEP values (Haskin and Warren, 1991; Papike et al., 1998).”
Back to the Moon: The scientific rationale for resuming lunar surface exploration (2012, background): “…permanently shadowed craters, infra-red remote-sensing observations have found evidence for hydrated minerals, and/or adsorbed water or hydroxyl molecules, over large areas of the high latitude (but not permanently shadowed) lunar surface (Pieters et al. 2009; Sunshine et al., 2009; Clark, 2009).”