NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC), in conjunction with the United States Geological Survey (USGS) and aided by personnel from the Astromaterials Research and Exploration Science group at Johnson Space Center (ARES-JSC), is implementing a new data acquisition strategy to support the development and evaluation of lunar regolith simulants. The first analyses of lunar regolith samples by the simulant group were carried out in early 2008 on samples from Apollo 16 core 64001/64002. The results of these analyses are combined with data compiled from the literature to generate a reference composition and particle size distribution (PSD)) for lunar highlands regolith. In this paper we present the specifics of particle type composition and PSD for this reference composition. Furthermore. we use Figure-of-Merit (FoM) routines to measure the characteristics of a number of lunar regolith simulants against this reference composition. The lunar highlands regolith reference composition and the FoM results are presented to guide simulant producers and simulant users in their research and development processes.
Lunar Regolith Characterization for Simulant Design and Evaluation using Figure of Merit Algorithms
89th American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting ; 2009 ; Phoenix, AZ, United States
2009-01-11
Aufsatz (Konferenz)
Keine Angabe
Englisch
Lunar Regolith Characterization for Simulant Design and Evaluation Using Figure of Merit Algorithms
British Library Conference Proceedings | 2009
|NASA Lunar Regolith Simulant Program
NTRS | 2010
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