Authors
Citation
Ns. Duxbury et al., On the possibility of clathrate hydrates on the Moon, J GEO R-PLA, 106(E11), 2001, pp. 27811-27813
Citations number
25
Categorie Soggetti
Space Sciences
Journal title
JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-PLANETS
ISSN journal
21699097
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Volume
106
Issue
E11
Year of publication
2001
Pages
27811 - 27813
Database
ISI
SICI code
0148-0227(20011125)106:E11<27811:OTPOCH>2.0.ZU;2-Y
Abstract
One of the most important inferences of the Lunar Prospector mission data w
as the existence of subsurface water ice in the permanently shadowed crater
s near both lunar poles [Feldman et al., 1998]. We propose and substantiate
an alternative explanation that hydrogen can exist in the shallow lunar su
bsurface in the form of clathrate hydrates: CH4 . 6H(2)O and/or CO2 . 6H(2)
O.