Understanding Lunar Regolith: Implications For Geological History And Future Exploration
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Indeed, as the environment with less number of niches and dramatic geographical changes, the lunar surface is in a way an material that has been morphed by billions of years of astronomical activities. This paper therefore aims at giving a comprehensive comparative analysis of the identified associated minerals in the impact crater and the non-crater region of the moon in the hope of unraveling the processes that define morphology of surface morphology. Moon surface is comparatively rugged having distinguishable difference in large areas of low planes known as maria and elevated grounds highlands and thus making inquiries into impacts of meteor concerning distribution of minerals relatively simpler on this natural experiment. Expanding from details collected from the most popular lunar impact formations, namely Mare Orientale, Tycho as well as Copernicus, this paper seeks to describe and account for some of the structural and geological characteristics that go hand in hand with impacts of various sizes. These rays when combined with other geographical features such as rilles, domes, and swirls on the surface of the moon will give an estimate of its geologic past. Furthermore, it is more focused on factors of nature that controls the array and generation of lunar regolith as well as the impacts of meteoroid on the face of moon . Again, to understand the mechanical properties and mineralogical composition of regolith samples collected from different lunar sites, information about the geological history of moon is established.
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