P006
Characterizing Volatiles in Planetary Regoliths
Characterizing Volatiles in Planetary Regoliths
Session ID#: 82331
Session Description:
Planetary bodies are covered with impact-generated regolith layers that is increasingly suggested to contain substantial evidences of volatiles. Understanding how impact gardening, sputtering, thermal segregation, mass wasting, sintering, and other processes are altering the occurrence and distribution of these volatiles is a key element in understanding their detectability using various remote sensing and in-situ methods. Moreover, the identification and characterization of these shallow-subsurface volatiles is fundamental for understanding the evolution of planetary surfaces, their habitability, and as an important in-situ resource for potential future human explorers. This session will explore the use of geomorphic and geophysical studies as well as in-situ and remote sensing techniques, to investigate the state and distribution of water, ice and organics on planetary regoliths including Moons, small bodies, planets, and icy ocean worlds. Abstracts addressing these topics, including analogs, laboratory, simulation and instrument prototype studies supporting existing or potential future investigations, are encouraged.
Index Terms:
5109 Magnetic and electrical properties [PHYSICAL PROPERTIES OF ROCKS]
5194 Instruments and techniques [PHYSICAL PROPERTIES OF ROCKS]
6297 Instruments and techniques [PLANETARY SCIENCES: SOLAR SYSTEM OBJECTS]
6969 Remote sensing [RADIO SCIENCE]
Primary Convener: Essam Heggy, University of Southern California, Electrical Engineering - Electrophysics, Los Angeles, CA, United States
Conveners: Alessandro Frigeri, IAPS-INAF, Rome, Italy and Valerie Ciarletti, LATMOS/CNRS, Guyancourt, France
Primary Liaison: Essam Heggy, University of Southern California, Electrical Engineering - Electrophysics, Los Angeles, CA, United States
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