Program and Abstract Volume LPI Contribution No. 1621 A Wet vs. Dry Moon: Exploring Volatile Reservoirs and Implications for the Evolution of the Moon and Future Exploration June 13–15, 2011 • Houston, Texas Sponsors Curation and Analysis Planning Team for Extraterrestrial Materials (CAPTEM) Lunar Exploration Analysis Group (LEAG) Lunar and Planetary Institute (LPI) NASA Lunar Science Institute (NLSI) NASA Ralph Steckler Program Conveners Chip Shearer (University of New Mexico) Malcolm Rutherford (Brown University) Greg Schmidt (NASA Ames Research Center) Scientific Organizing Committee Don Bogard (Lunar and Planetary Institute-NASA Johnson Space Center) Ben Bussey (John Hopkins University, Advanced Physics Laboratory) Linda Elkins-Tanton (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Penny King (University of New Mexico Gary Lofgren (NASA Johnson Space Center) Francis McCubbin (University of New Mexico) Carle Pieters (Brown University) Paul Spudis (Lunar and Planetary Institute) Edward Stolper (California Institute of Technology) Richard Vondrak (Goddard Space Flight Center) Diane Wooden (NASA Ames Research Center) Lunar and Planetary Institute 3600 Bay Area Boulevard Houston TX 77058-1113 LPI Contribution No. 1621 Compiled in 2011 by Meeting and Publication Services Lunar and Planetary Institute USRA Houston 3600 Bay Area Boulevard, Houston TX 77058-1113 The Lunar and Planetary Institute is operated by the Universities Space Research Association under a cooperative agreement with the Science Mission Directorate of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. 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ISSN No. 0161-5297 Preface This volume contains abstracts that have been accepted for presentation at A Wet vs. Dry Moon: Exploring Volatile Reservoirs and Implications for the Evolution of the Moon and Future Exploration, June 13–15, 2011, Houston, Texas. Administration and publications support for this meeting were provided by the staff of the Meeting and Publication Services Department at the Lunar and Planetary Institute. Wet vs. Dry Moon v Contents Program .........................................................................................................................................................................v Exploration and Evaluation of Lunar Volatiles as Potential Resource Within the ESA Lunar Lander Context M. Anand, J. Carpenter, and the ESA Topical Team-ELPM ..........................................................................1 On the Simulation of Adsorbed Water on the Moon R. A. Baragiola and C. A. Dukes ....................................................................................................................2 How the Moon Makes Water: A Conceptual View D. D. Bogard ..................................................................................................................................................3 Analysis of Volatiles in Apatite: Implications for Quantitative Hygrometry J. W. Boyce .....................................................................................................................................................4 A Review of Lunar Polar Illumination Studies Using Clementine, SMART-1, Kaguya and LRO Data D. B. J. Bussey and P. D. Spudis ....................................................................................................................5 Cold and Cryogenic Curation of Lunar Volatile Samples Returned to Earth M. J. Calaway and C. C. Allen .......................................................................................................................6 Lunar Polar Regions as Solar System Analogs P. E. Clark and R. Cox ...................................................................................................................................7 Mapping Water and Hydroxyl on the Moon as Seen by the Moon Mineralogy Mapper (M3) R. N. Clark, C. M. Pieters, R. O. Green, J. Boardman, N. E. Petro, B. J. Buratti, L. Cheek, J. P. Combe, D. Dhingra, J. N. Goswami, J. W. Head III, P. J. Isaacson, R. Klima, G. Kramer, K. E. Livo, S. Lundeen, E. Malaret, T. B. McCord, J. Mustard, J. W. Nettles, C. Runyon, M. Staid, J. M. Sunshine, L. A. Taylor, K. Thaisen, S. Tompkins, and J. Whitten ........................................................................................................8 A Model for the Distribution of Volatiles at the LCROSS Impact Site A. Colaprete, J. Heldmann, D. H. Wooden, K. Mjaseth, M. Shirley, W. Marshall, R. Elphic, B. Hermalyn, and P. Schultz ..........................................................................................................9 Mapping of Lunar Volatiles: A Challenging Problem J.-Ph. Combe, T. B. McCord, P. O. Hayne, and D. A. Paige .......................................................................10 Thermal Analyses of Apollo Lunar Soils Provide Evidence for Water in Permanently Shadowed Areas B. L. Cooper, M. C. Smith, and E. K. Gibson ...............................................................................................11 A Model of the Moon’s Volatile Depletion S. J. Desch and G. J. Taylor .........................................................................................................................12 Neutron Suppressed Regions (NSRs) Using the LRO Neutron Detector Experiment LEND G. F. Droege, W. V. Boynton, and I. G. Mitrofanov .....................................................................................13 Water in the Lunar Magma Ocean L. T. Elkins-Tanton and T. L. Grove .............................................................................................................14 vi LPI Contribution No. 1621 Implications for the Distribution of Water Ice and Other Volatiles from LCROSS and Lunar Orbital Data R. C. Elphic, L. F. A. Teodoro, V. R. Eke, D. A. Paige, M. A. Siegler, and A. Colaprete ............................15 The Character of the Solar Wind, Surface Interactions, and Water W. M. Farrell and the L.S.I. DREAM Team .................................................................................................16 Space Environmental Erosion of Polar Icy Regolith W. M. Farrell, R. M. Killen, R. R. Vondrak, D. M. Hurley, T. J. Stubbs, G. T. Delory, J. S. Halekas, M. I. Zimmerman, and the L. S. I. Dream Team ....................................................................17 Volatile Analyzer for Lunar Polar Missions E. K. Gibson, C. T. Pillinger, D. S. McKay, and L. J. Waugh ......................................................................18 LRO-LAMP Measurements of Far-Ultraviolet Albedos in Permanently Shadowed Regions G. R. Gladstone, K. D. Retherford, S. A. Stern, A. F. Egan, P. F. Miles, M. H. Versteeg, D. C. Slater, M. W. Davis, J. Wm. Parker, D. E. Kaufmann, T. K. Greathouse, A. J. Steffl, J. Mukherjee, D. Horvath, P. D. Feldman, D. M. Hurley, W. R. Pryor, and A. R. Hendrix ....................................................................................................................19 Water in the Moon: Evidence from Hydrogen Isotope Compositions of Lunar Apatite J. P. Greenwood, S. Itoh, N. Sakamoto, P. H. Warren, M. D. Dyar, L. A. Taylor, and H. Yurimoto ......................................................................................................................20 Newly Identified Potential Lunar Pyroclastic Deposits J. O. Gustafson, J. F. Bell III, L. R. Gaddis, B. R. Hawke, T. A. Giguere, and the LROC Science Team ................................................................................................21 The Potential of Impact Melts as a Lunar Water Reservoir R. S. Harris and P. H. Schultz ......................................................................................................................22 Evidence for High Volatile Abundances in Lunar Melt Inclusions E. H. Hauri, T. Weinreich, A. E. Saal, M. C. Rutherford, and J. A. Van Orman ..........................................23 Scouring the Surface: Ejecta Dynamics and the LCROSS Impact Event B. Hermalyn, P. H. Schultz, M. Shirley, K. Ennico, and A. Colaprete .........................................................24 An Overview of Hydrous Lunar Magmatism, with an Emphasis on the Possible Role of Dissolved Molecular Hydrogen in Lunar Basalts M. Hirschmann .............................................................................................................................................25 Modeling of Hydrogen Accumulation at the Lunar Poles D. M. Hurley, R. C. Elphic, and R. R. Vondrak ............................................................................................26 Implications of Volatiles Within Lunar Basalts for the Origin of Sinuous Rille Source Depressions D. M. Hurwitz and J. W. Head .....................................................................................................................27