Understanding the Lunar Surface and Space-Moon Interactions

By Paul G. Lucey, R. Korotev, J. J. Gillis, L. Taylor, D. Lawrence, B. Campbell, R. Elphic, B. Feldman, L. Hood, D. Hunten and 8 more. 2006

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A review of water contents of nominally anhydrous natural minerals in the mantles of Earth, Mars and the Moon (2010, background): “This is interpreted as the Moon having lost most of its volatiles, and in particular H, during its formation by a giant impact between protoEarth and an asteroid (Lucey et al., 2006).”
Lunar resources (2014, background): “The entire lunar surface is covered in an unconsolidated layer of regolith which has been produced by billions of years of meteorite and micro-meteorite impacts (Lucey et al., 2006: McKay et al., 1991).”
Back to the Moon: The scientific rationale for resuming lunar surface exploration (2012, background): “Studies of Apollo samples have revealed that solar wind particles are efficiently implanted in the lunar regolith (McKay et al., 1991; Lucey et al., 2006), which therefore contains a record of the composition and evolution of the Sun throughout Solar System history (e.g. Wieler et al., 1996).”
The lunar magma ocean: Reconciling the solidification process with lunar petrology and geochronology (2011, background): “Indeed the Mg#s of orthopyroxenes in ferroan anorthosites ranges from ~40 to 75 (Lucey et al., 2006), indicating a degree of fractionation equivalent to what is predicted in these models. solidification from the bottom, shown with Mg# (molar Mg/(Mg+Fe)), for pre- and post-overturned lunar mantles.”