Lunar Igneous Activity and Differentiation

The Search for Water in Igneous Lunar Materials: a Re-assessment of the Lunar Magmatic Volatile Budget

Introduction: Magmatic volatiles such as H 2 O, F, Cl, CO 2 , and S play a critical role in physiochemical processes that control thermal stabilities of minerals and melts, magma eruptive processes, and transport of economically important metals. Of these volatiles, water is the dominant magmatic volatile in terrestrial magmas both because of its abundance and its strong effect on physical prop...

Igneous differentiation on Mars: Trachybasalts in Gale Crater

Edwards, R. Anderson, M. D. Dyar, M. Fisk, L. Thompson, P. Gasda, S. P. Schwenzer, W. Goetz, D. Blaney, J. Filiberto, R. C. Wiens, Space Research Centre, University of Leicester UK [email protected] USGS Astrogeology Science Center, Flagstaff, AZ, Mt. Holyoke College, Ma, Oregon State Univ., Planetary and Space Science Centre, University of New Brunswick, Can., Los Alamos National Lab., NM, Op...

VALENCE OF Ti in LUNAR IGNEOUS ROCKS : THE FIRST DIRECT MEASUREMENTS

Activity Planning for a Lunar Orbital Mission

ligence technology to address the challenging problem of activity planning for a lunar orbital NASA mission: the Lunar Atmospheric and Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE). AI technology can help solve a given problem through a software system that automates some aspect of the problemsolving process. However, often, a significant aspect of the benefit an AI scientist can provide is in terms of def...

Magma Composition and Igneous Rocks

Introduction In the following chapters we will find that nearly all of the varied aspects of volcanism are either directly or indirectly controlled by the chemical composition of magma and the rate at which it cools and solidifies. If you are to understand and appreciate subsequent discussions of volcanoes and related volcanic phenomena, it is essential that you have a good grasp of the basic c...