STRUCTURE AND FORMATION MECHANISM OF LUNAR REGOLITH

Structure and Formation Mechanism of Lunar Regolith

Lunar regolith is a thin layer of weakly cohesive detrital materials covering the lunar surface.Studies on returned lunar samples have revealed that the lunar regolith mainly consists of fragments of rocks, minerals, breccia, glasses, and agglutinates with a median grain size of ~40 to 800 μm.The lunar regolith was produced from the space weatheri

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