PETROGRAPHIC INVESTIGATION OF THE LUNAR SURFACE BY JOINT USE OF PHOTOMETRIC AND COLORIMETRIC OBSERVATIONS,

Abstract

A statistical comparison between the lunar surface and the earth's rocks and materials with respect to color and luminosity was carried out in an article based on published materials. It was established that a simultaneous similarity for the distribution curves according to brightness and color between the moon on the one hand and the earth's rocks and meteorites on the other was not obtained. The various assumptions introduced in order to explain the color characteristics of the lunar surface are discussed. The most reliable is the hypothesis according to which the lunar surface is covered by a porous vesicular slag formed from bedrock under the action of explosions accompanying the meteorite impacts.

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 01, 1964
Accession Number
AD0609693

Entities

People

  • V. V. Sharonov

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Advanced Materials
  • Brightness
  • Distribution Curves
  • Energetic Materials
  • Engineered Materials
  • Explosions
  • Luminosity
  • Materials
  • Metamaterials
  • Meteorites
  • Observation
  • Plasmonic Materials
  • Plasmonic Metamaterials

Readers

  • Geotechnical Engineering.
  • Regression Analysis.
  • Space Exploration and Orbital Mechanics.

Technology Areas

  • Space
  • Space - Orbital Debris