• DOI:10.1038/s41550-020-1198-9
Corpus ID: 218595642

Micro cold traps on the Moon

@article{Hayne2020MicroCT,
  title={Micro cold traps on the Moon},
  author={P. Hayne and O. Aharonson and N. Sch{\"o}rghofer},
  journal={Nature Astronomy},
  year={2020},
  volume={5},
  pages={169-175}
}

• P. Hayne, O. Aharonson, N. Schörghofer
• Published 2020
• Geology, Physics
• Nature Astronomy

Water ice is thought to be trapped in large permanently shadowed regions in the Moon’s polar regions, due to their extremely low temperatures. Here, we show that many unmapped cold traps exist on small spatial scales, substantially augmenting the areas where ice may accumulate. Using theoretical models and data from the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, we estimate the contribution of shadows on scales from 1 km to 1 cm, the smallest distance over which we find cold-trapping to be effective for… Expand

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