A study of future lunar seismology and heat flow is being carried out as part of the NASA Lunar Sortie Science Program [1].This study will include new lunar drilling techniques, using a regolith simulant, for emplacement of instruments. Previous lunar simulants, such as JSC-I and MLS-l, were not available when the study began, so a local simulant source was required. Diabase from a quarry at Leesburg, Virginia, was obtained from the Luck Stone Corporation. We report here initial results of a petrographic examination of this rock, GSC-1 henceforth.


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    Title :

    Jurassic Diabase from Leesburg, VA: A Proposed Lunar Simulant


    Contributors:

    Conference:

    NASA Lunar Science Institute meeting ; 2008 ; Moffett Field, CA, United States


    Publication date :

    2008-01-01


    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English




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