Radiation Sintering of Lunar Dust
- 19 November 1965
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 150 (3699) , 1025-1026
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.150.3699.1025
Abstract
Protons in the solar wind displace atoms in the grains of lunar dust. These atoms may, through diffusion, sinter the dust layer into a partly coherent but still highly porous structure.This publication has 5 references indexed in Scilit:
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