Regolith - NASA

NASA Lunar Petrographic Educational Thin Section SetC Meyer - 2003 Lunar RegolithFigure 54 Footprint in lunar soil. Few rocks are sitting out on top of mature Regolith . NASA photo lunar surface is covered by a layer ofunconsolidated debris called the lunar Regolith (fig. 53).The thickness of the Regolith varies from about 5 m onmare surfaces to about 10 m on highland surfaces. Thebulk of the Regolith is a fine gray soil with a density ofabout g/cm3, but the Regolith also includes brecciaand rock fragments from the local bedrock (reviewsby Heiken et al. 1974 and Papike et al. 1982). Abouthalf the weight of a lunar soil is less than 60 to 80 micronsin size. The grain size distribution is given in figure the Moon lacks any sort of an atmosphere, theupper few millimeters of the Regolith is exposed to thebombardment of micrometeorites and to solar windirradiation.

NASA Lunar Petrographic Educational Thin Section Set C Meyer - 2003 Figure 57 - Meter-size craters in the lunar regolith are capable of producing soil breccias like 15299.

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