PSJC #177 November 21 2014
The Mystery of the Surveyor III Dust Deposits
Philip Metzger
There will be a discussion of various lunar dust questions, such as:
How did the spacecraft get covered in dust in such a short time on
the Moon? What are the primary dust transport mechanisms in the lunar
environment? What about transport induced by the spacecraft itself? What
does the varying mineralogy of the dust on different sides of the
spacecraft tell us?
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