Ice-less Moon

Climate change. A worrying trend of less ice, higher seas.

Whither Arctic ice? Less of it, for sure.

New estimates for the sublimation rate for ice on the Moon

The strong hydrogen signal that the Lunar Prospector saw at the Moon’s poles suggests that water ice may be present near the surface of the lunar regolith. A robotic mission to obtain in situ samples and to quantify the amount of this valuable resource must be designed carefully to avoid dissipating too much heat in the regolith during coring or drilling and, thus, causing the ice to sublimate ...

Explosive Volcanism on Atmosphere-less Bodies - a Comparison of the Moon, Mercury and Io

Introduction: There is abundant observational evidence of explosive volcanism on all three of the large airless silicate-dominated bodies, the Moon [1], Mercury [2] and Io [3]. The lack of atmospheres makes analysis of explosive activity relatively simple. We combine the results of earlier analyses of explosive volcanism to draw inferences about the geologic circumstances of explosive activity ...

Shooting for the Moon: How Academicians Could Make Management Research Even Less Irrelevant

By publishing a special issue on ‘‘The State of Practice,’’ JBP takes an important step to bridge the science/practice gap, but it is only a step and will not alone span this gap. On the academic side, currently dominant cultures and incentive systems all but guarantee the irrelevance of most scholarly work to anyone except other scholars. On the practice side, managers rarely frame their dilem...