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On the possibility of clathrate hydrates on the Moon

Author(s) -

Duxbury N. S.,

Nealson K. H.,

Romanovsky V. E.

Publication year - 2001

Publication title -

journal of geophysical research: planets

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 1.67

H-Index - 298

eISSN - 2156-2202

pISSN - 0148-0227

DOI - 10.1029/2000je001425

Subject(s) - clathrate hydrate , astrobiology , impact crater , water ice , geology , regolith , lunar craters , moon landing , geophysics , earth science , hydrate , physics , apollo , chemistry , zoology , organic chemistry , biology

One of the most important inferences of the Lunar Prospector mission data was the existence of subsurface water ice in the permanently shadowed craters near both lunar poles [ Feldman et al. , 1998]. We propose and substantiate an alternative explanation that hydrogen can exist in the shallow lunar subsurface in the form of clathrate hydrates: CH 4 · 6H 2 O and/or CO 2 · 6H 2 O.

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