Mapping of crustal magnetic anomalies on the lunar near side by the Lunar Prospector electron reflectometer

Design of a Deployable Structure for a Lunar Greenhouse Module

“…Furthermore, unlike the Earth's magnetic field, the present day magnetic field of the Moon is not a dipolar field generated by a dynamo effect of the core. Instead the magnetic field of the Moon is (almost entirely) due to crustal magnetism [93,94].…”

“…It has been hypothesized that a lunar dynamo might have been responsible for these magnetizing fields, but fields generated by impacts or occurring due to solar or terrestrial influence have also been proposed [93,94].…”

“…These magnetic anomalies range in size from a few kilometres to hundreds of kilometres and, as seen in Figure 27, the strength of these fields can differ by a factor 1000. The differences in local magnetization can be attributed to, among other things, the type and amount of magnetized material and the strength of the magnetizing field at the time when the material was magnetized [93,94].…”

“…This is due to the fact that large impacts will cause shocks and high temperatures, which result in material around the impact zone being heated above their Curie temperature, resulting in a loss of magnetism. Thus impacts on the lunar surface also influence the variation in local magnetization [93,94].…”

ARTEMIS Science Objectives

“…Electron reflection and magnetometer measurements from the Apollo 15 and 16 subsatellites (Hood et al 1981;Lin et al 1988) and the Lunar Prospector spacecraft (Hood et al 2001;Halekas et al 2001;Mitchell et al 2008) have enabled global mapping of lunar crustal fields. However, the map is severely undersampled, with significant noise and pixelization clearly visible (see Fig.…”