Petrophysical Insights Into Lunar Mafic Extrusive Basalts Over Reiner Gamma Formation

Magnetic field direction and lunar swirl morphology: Insights from Airy and Reiner Gamma

[1] Many of the Moon’s crustal magnetic anomalies are accompanied by high albedo features known as swirls. A leading hypothesis suggests that swirls are formed where crustal magnetic anomalies, acting as mini magnetospheres, shield portions of the surface from the darkening effects of solar wind ion bombardment, thereby leaving patches that appear bright compared with their surroundings. If thi...

Chlorine in Lunar Basalts

The Growing Diversity of Lunar Basalts

Lars Borg (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, LLNL) and colleagues at LLNL, the University of New Mexico, the University of California, Berkeley, and Arizona State University have made detailed measurements of trace elements and isotopes in Northwest Africa (NWA) 032, a lunar basaltic meteorite. Previous studies had already shown that the rock is a low-titanium mare basalt. Among other thi...

Volatiles in high-K lunar basalts

Understanding the Chlorine Isotopic Compositions of Apatites in Lunar Basalts

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