Lunar dust and dusty plasmas: Recent developments, advances, and unsolved problems

SI Popel, LM Zelenyi, AY Dubinskii - Planetary and Space Science, 2018 - Elsevier
A renaissance is being observed currently in investigations of the Moon. The Luna-25 and
Luna-27 missions are being prepared in Russia. At the same time, in connection with the …

Space plasma physics: A review

BT Tsurutani, GP Zank, VJ Sterken… - … on Plasma Science, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Owing to the ever-present solar wind, our vast solar system is full of plasmas. The turbulent
solar wind, together with sporadic solar eruptions, introduces various space plasma …

[图书][B] Physics of dusty plasmas

A Melzer - 2019 - Springer
These Lecture Notes are intended as an introductory course into the fascinating field of
dusty plasmas. On the one hand, dusty plasmas provide an independent branch of plasma …

Dust dynamics in the lunar dusty plasmas: Effects of magnetic fields and dust charge variations

SI Popel, AP Golub, AI Kassem, LM Zelenyi - Physics of Plasmas, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
The influence of the magnetic field of the Earth's magnetotail on dusty plasmas above the
sunlit surface of the Moon is studied. For this purpose, a physical-mathematical model for a …

Dusty plasmas above the sunlit surface of Mercury

SI Popel, AP Golub, LM Zelenyi - Physics of Plasmas, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
Above the sunlit surface of Mercury, the properties and formation of dusty plasmas are
investigated. It is demonstrated that the dusty plasmas are formed for subsolar angles …

Dusty plasma sheath-like structure in the region of lunar terminator

SI Popel, LM Zelenyi, B Atamaniuk - Physics of Plasmas, 2015 - pubs.aip.org
The main properties of the dusty plasma layer near the surface over the illuminated and dark
parts of the Moon are described. They are used to realize dusty plasma behaviour and to …

Electrostatic dust remediation for future exploration of the Moon

M Hirabayashi, CM Hartzell, PM Bellan, D Bodewits… - Acta Astronautica, 2023 - Elsevier
Dust accumulation is one of the critical issues that must be mitigated on in-situ lunar
explorations because an in-situ probe is exposed to small dust particles, which are easily …

Granular avalanches on the Moon: Mass‐wasting conditions, processes, and features

BP Kokelaar, RS Bahia, KH Joy… - Journal of …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Seven lunar crater sites of granular avalanches are studied utilizing high‐resolution images
(0.42–1.3 m/pixel) from the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera; one, in Kepler crater, is …

On the distributions of photoelectrons over the illuminated part of the moon

SI Popel, AP Golub', YN Izvekova, VV Afonin… - JETP letters, 2014 - Springer
The existing view of the photoemission properties of lunar regolith does not provide the
unambiguous treatment of the parameters and distributions of photoelectrons over the …

Photoelectron sheath on lunar sunlit regolith and dust levitation

SK Mishra, A Bhardwaj - The Astrophysical Journal, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
Photoelectron sheath formation and subsequent fine dust levitation over the sunlit lunar
regolith have been investigated by consistently accounting for the continuous interaction of …