Abstract The Moon and Mercury are airless bodies, thus they are directly exposed to the
ambient plasma (ions and electrons), to photons mostly from the Sun from infrared range all …

Volatiles and refractories represent the two end-members in the volatility range of species in
any surface-bounded exosphere. Volatiles include elements that do not interact strongly with …

Rocky planets and moons experiencing solar wind sputtering are continuously supplying
their enveloping exosphere with ejected neutral atoms. To understand the quantity and …

Gas-surface interactions at the Moon, Mercury and other massive planetary bodies
constitute, alongside production and escape, an essential element of the physics of their …

Positive ion desorption following electron impact dissociative ionization of ethane adsorbed
on Ar, Kr, and Xe multilayers has been studied as a function of incident electron energy from …

This chapter presents a comprehensive overview of the abundances and distribution of S,
and the processes that control the behavior of S on the Earth's Moon and on Mercury. The …

Energetic solar wind ions erode the surfaces of the Moon and Mercury through sputtering.
The process of sputtering ejects material with suprathermal velocities into the collisionless …