Lunar surface: Dust dynamics and regolith mechanics

By Joshua E. Colwell, S. Batiste, M. Horányi, Scott Robertson, Stein Sture. 2007

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ACTIVITY IN GEMINID PARENT (3200) PHAETHON (2010, background): “Evidence from the Moon shows that dust particles are periodically lifted from the surface at speeds ∼1 m s−1 by steep electric field gradients that develop in the terminator regions (de and Criswell 1977, Colwell et al. 2007).”
Mercury’s Weather-Beaten Surface: Understanding Mercury in the Context of Lunar and Asteroidal Space Weathering Studies (2014, background): “…lunar terminator show that submicrometer-sized grains can be levitated and transported tens of kilometers in altitude (e.g., Criswell 1973; McCoy and Criswell 1974; Rennilson and Criswell 1974; Zook and McCoy 1991; Halekas et al. 2002; Stubbs et al. 2006; Colwell et al. 2007; Glenar et al. 2012).”
Dust charging and transport on airless planetary bodies (2016, background): “This distinct glow with a high intensity and a long duration has been suggested to be due to forward scattered sunlight from a cloud of ~10μm diameter dust particles electrostatically lofted to a height within 1m above the surface [Criswell, 1973; Rennilson and Criswell, 1974; Colwell et al., 2007].”
The strength of regolith and rubble pile asteroids (2013, methodology): “shallow as d 2 prior to removal from the chamber due to disaggregation of larger clumps of grains into smaller constitutive pieces during removal. Tsuchiyama et al. (2011) speculate that this size distribution would extend up to the millimeter size range.”