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Measurement of primary ejecta from normal incident hypervelocity impact on lunar regolith simulant
| Content Provider | NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) |
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| Author | Cooke, William Edwards, David L. |
| Copyright Year | 2007 |
| Description | The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) continues to make progress toward long-term lunar habitation. Critical to the design of a lunar habitat is an understanding of the lunar surface environment. A subject for further definition is the lunar primary ejecta environment. The document NASA SP-8013 was developed for the Apollo program and is the latest definition of the primary ejecta environment. There is concern that NASA SP-8013 may over-estimate the lunar primary ejecta environment. NASA's Meteoroid Environment Office (MEO) has initiated several tasks to improve the accuracy of our understanding of the lunar surface primary ejecta environment. This paper reports the results of experiments on projectile impact into pumice targets, simulating lunar regolith. The Ames Vertical Gun Range (AVGR) was used to accelerate spherical Pyrex projectiles of 0.29g to velocities ranging between 2.5 km/s and 5.18 km/s. Impact on the pumice target occurred at normal incidence. The ejected particles were detected by thin aluminum foil targets placed around the pumice target in a 0.5 Torr vacuum. A simplistic technique to characterize the ejected particles was formulated. Improvements to this technique will be discussed for implementation in future tests. |
| File Size | 1476147 |
| Page Count | 7 |
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| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://archive.org/details/NASA_NTRS_Archive_20070032712 |
| Archival Resource Key | ark:/13960/t20c9xk86 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher Date | 2007-06-11 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Lunar And Planetary Science And Exploration Ejecta Pumice Hypervelocity Projectiles Aluminum Detectors Targets Metal Foils Regolith Borosilicate Glass Hypervelocity Impact Lunar Rocks Ntrs Nasa Technical Reports Server (ntrs) Nasa Technical Reports Server Aerodynamics Aircraft Aerospace Engineering Aerospace Aeronautic Space Science |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
