Beginning in 2004 personnel at MSFC began serious efforts to develop a new generation of lunar simulants. The first two products were a replication of the previous JSC-1 simulant under a contract to Orbitec and a major workshop in 2005 on future simulant development. It was recognized in early 2006 there were serious limitations with the standard approach of simply taking a single terrestrial rock and grinding it. To a geologist, even a cursory examination of the Lunar Sourcebook shows that matching lunar heterogeneity, crystal size, relative mineral abundances, lack of H2O, plagioclase chemistry and glass abundance simply can not be done with any simple combination of terrestrial rocks. Thus the project refocused its efforts and approached simulant development in a new and more comprehensive manner, examining new approaches in simulant development and ways to more accurately compare simulants to actual lunar materials. This led to a multi-year effort with five major tasks running in parallel. The five tasks are Requirements, Lunar Analysis, Process Development, Feed Stocks, and Standards.


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    Titel :

    Progress of the NASAUSGS Lunar Regolith Simulant Project


    Beteiligte:
    Rickman, Douglas (Autor:in) / McLemore, C. (Autor:in) / Stoeser, D. (Autor:in) / Schrader, C. (Autor:in) / Fikes, J. (Autor:in) / Street, K. (Autor:in)

    Kongress:

    Planetary and Terrestrial Mining Sciences Symposium ; 2007 ; Toronto, Canada


    Erscheinungsdatum :

    2009-06-07


    Medientyp :

    Sonstige


    Format :

    Keine Angabe


    Sprache :

    Englisch




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