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is known to have extensive fields of dunes. However, the origin of the material forming the dunes is unknown - it could be small fragments of water ice eroded by flowing methane or particulate organic matter that formed in Titan's atmosphere and rained down on the surface. Scientists are beginning to
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displacing a large pebble as it landed and that the surface is better described as a 'sand' made of ice grains. The images taken after the probe's landing show a flat plain covered in pebbles. The pebbles, which may be made of water ice, are somewhat rounded, which may indicate the action of fluids
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content, whereas the Moon has none. However, standard usage among lunar scientists is to ignore that distinction. "Lunar dust" generally connotes even finer materials than lunar soil, the fraction which is less than 30 micrometers in diameter. The average chemical composition of regolith might be
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and that the module might sink beneath the surface. However, Joseph Veverka (also of Cornell) pointed out that Gold had miscalculated the depth of the overlying dust, which was only a couple of centimeters thick. Indeed, the regolith was found to be quite firm by the robotic
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are recharged and through which aquifer discharge occurs. Many aquifers, such as alluvial aquifers, occur entirely within regolith. The composition of the regolith can also strongly influence water composition through the presence of salts and acid-generating materials.
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The sand is believed to move only slowly in the Martian winds due to the very low density of the atmosphere in the present epoch. In the past, liquid water flowing in gullies and river valleys may have shaped the Martian regolith. Mars researchers are studying whether
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The impact of micrometeoroids, sometimes travelling faster than 96,000 km/h (60,000 mph), generates enough heat to melt or partially vaporize dust particles. This melting and refreezing welds particles together into glassy, jagged-edged
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Regolith is also important to engineers constructing buildings, roads and other civil works. The mechanical properties of regolith vary considerably and need to be documented if the construction is to withstand the rigors of use.
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is often used interchangeably with "lunar regolith" but typically refers to the finer fraction of regolith, that which is composed of grains one centimetre in diameter or less. Some have argued that the term
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exist on Mars and play a role. It is believed that large quantities of water and carbon dioxide ices remain frozen within the regolith in the equatorial parts of Mars and on its surface at higher latitudes.
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or rock fragments that were in turn composed of such minerals. Loose blankets of ice grains were not considered regolith because when they appear on Earth in the form of
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mission also returned clear images of regolith on an asteroid so small it was thought that gravity was too low to develop and maintain a regolith. The asteroid
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is covered with vast expanses of sand and dust, and its surface is littered with rocks and boulders. The dust is occasionally picked up in vast planet-wide
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regions. Below this true regolith is a region of blocky and fractured bedrock created by larger impacts, which is often referred to as the "megaregolith".
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McKay, David S.; Heiken, Grant; Basu, Abhijit; Blanford, George; Simon, Steven; Reedy, Robert; French, Bevan M.; Papike, James (1991),
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Regolith can vary from being essentially absent to hundreds of metres in thickness. Its age can vary from instantaneous (for an
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Mars Lander, where the descent thrusters have apparently cleared away several patches of dust to expose the underlying ice.
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and from solar and galactic charged particles breaking down surface rocks. Regolith production by rock erosion can lead to
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Sierks, H.; et al. (2011). "Images of Asteroid 21 Lutetia: A Remnant Planetesimal from the Early Solar System".
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on landing to characterize the mechanical properties of the local regolith. The surface itself was reported to be a
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spacecraft that preceded Apollo, and during the Apollo landings the astronauts often found it necessary to use a
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has a layer of regolith near its north pole, which flows in landslides associated with variations in albedo.
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raised a concern that the thick dust layer at the top of the regolith would not support the weight of the
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In places this covering is made up of material originating through rock-weathering or plant growth
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age occurs in parts of Australia, though this may have been buried and subsequently exhumed.)
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The physical and optical properties of lunar regolith are altered through a process known as
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The Regolith Glossary: Surficial Geology, Soils and Landscapes, Richard A Eggleton, Editor
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New Images from the Huygens Probe: Shorelines and Channels, But an Apparently Dry Surface
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Clarke, Jonathon (2008). "Extraterrestrial regolith. In Scott, K and Pain, C.F. (Eds)".
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Asteroids have regoliths developed by meteoroid impact. The final images taken by the
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Cooperative Research Centre for Landscape, Environments, and Mineral Exploration
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or alluvium just deposited) to hundreds of millions of years old (regolith of
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spacecraft of a region approximately 160 by 325 kilometers (99 by 202 miles)
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spacecraft was landing, this image shows an area that is only 12 m across.
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are the best images of the regolith of an asteroid. The recent Japanese
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A layer of loose, heterogeneous superficial deposits covering solid rock
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Regolith Exploration Geochemistry in Tropical and Subtropical Terrains
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similarity with regolith on other bodies. However, traditionally (and
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estimated from the relative concentration of elements in lunar soil.
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Earth's regolith includes the following subdivisions and components:
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protruding only on very steep-sided crater walls and the occasional
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would be unable to burrow or build shelter without loose material.
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Regolith Exploration Geochemistry in Arctic and Temperate Terrains
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is shaping the Martian regolith in the present epoch and whether
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Regolith may host mineral deposits, such as mineral sands,
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and other transported cover, including that transported by
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orbiter image is from a height of 30 km (19 mi).
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Geomorphology: The Mechanics and Chemistry of Landscapes
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The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
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Relative concentration of various elements of lunar soil
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shows the fine and powdery texture of the lunar surface.
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Taken from just 250 m above the surface of Eros as the
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The regolith is generally from 4 to 5 m thick in
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L. K. Kauranne, R. Salminen, & K. Eriksson 1992
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Index


433 Eros
/ˈrɛɡəlɪθ/
heterogeneous
superficial deposits
rock
dust
Earth
Moon
Mars
asteroids
terrestrial planets
moons
regolith
Greek
ῥῆγος
λίθος
George P. Merrill
in situ

soil
pedolith
alluvium
aeolian
glacial
gravity flow
saprolite
bedrock
weathered rocks
volcanic ash

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