Space weathering on airless bodies: Resolving a mystery with lunar samples

By Carle M. Pieters, L. Taylor, S. Noble, L. Keller, B. Hapke, R. Morris, C. Allen, D. Mckay, S. Wentworth. 2000

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Observed spectral properties of near-Earth objects: results for population distribution, source regions, and space weathering processes (2004, background): “Current models for s weathering being due to the deposition of submicrosco iron (SMFe)(Hapke et al., 1975; Pieters et al., 2000)suggest that older surfaces become increasingly reddened d s H, ere sten ids. rger have ma sto per y ar es er (inly e ef ring cale matroid oces of ids. ce, with d by - ing…”
Mercury’s Weather-Beaten Surface: Understanding Mercury in the Context of Lunar and Asteroidal Space Weathering Studies (2014, background): “Solar-wind ion irradiation has been argued to be the dominant mechanism for weathering asteroid surfaces (Pieters et al. 2000; Chapman 2004; Vernazza et al. 2009).”
Space weathering and the interpretation of asteroid reflectance spectra (2010, background): “) The lunar-style space weathering process modifies the spectral slope, band intensities, and albedo of soils on the lunar surface (Pieters et al., 2000; Noble et al., 2001; Taylor et al., 2001; Hapke, 2001).”
Thermal removal from near‐infrared imaging spectroscopy data of the Moon (2011, background): “[11] The spectral properties of the Moon with space weathering show a remarkably linear response in reflectance as a function of wavelength [e.g.,McCord et al., 2011; Pieters et al., 2000] (Figures 3 and 4).”
Phase II of the Small Main-Belt Asteroid Spectroscopic Survey: The Observations (2002, background): “The spectral slope may also be sensitive to surface alteration processes such as the coating of grains by nanophase iron (Pieters et al. 2000).”
Phase reddening on near-Earth asteroids: Implications for mineralogical analysis, space weathering and taxonomic classification (2012, background): “The analysis of returned samples from the Moon and Asteroid (25143) Itokawa have shown that the cause of the spectral changes is the presence of submicroscopic metallic iron (SMFe) incorporated into the soil grains (Pieters et al., 2000; Taylor et al., 2001; Noguchi et al., 2011).”
Evidence for asteroid space weathering from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (2005, background): “For example,Pieters et al. (2000)andNoble et al. (2004)found that small degrees of space weathe n r t s r s more strongly influence the visible region of spectra, wh leaving the near-IR largely unaffected.”