Journal of Jilin University(Earth Science Edition) ›› 2021, Vol. 51 ›› Issue (4): 1276-1283.doi: 10.13278/j.cnki.jjuese.20200129

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Lunar Dust Detection Progress and Future Prospects

Li Cunhui1, Zhang Xiaoping2, Zhang He3, Wang Yi1, Xie Lianghai2, Yan Qi2, Ma Jinan3, Zhang Haiyan1, Zhuang Jianhong1, Zhao Chengxuan1   

  1. 1. Science and Technology on Vacuum Technology and Physics Laboratory, Lanzhou Institute of Physics, Lanzhou 730000, China;
    2. State Key Laboratory of Lunar and Planetary Sciences, Macau University of Science and Technology, Macau 999078, China;
    3. Beijing Institute of Spacecraft System Engineering, Beijing 100049, China
  • Received:2020-05-23 Online:2021-07-26 Published:2021-08-02
  • Supported by:
    Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (11761161001, 41704167) and the Science and Techno-logy Development Fund (FDCT) of Macau (020/2014/A1, 008/2017/AFJ, 0042/2018/A2)

Abstract: Lunar dust research has important scientific and engineering values. Although it has been studied for several decades,the transportation of natural dust activity near the Moon surface and its physical mechanism remain unclear due to the lack of quantitative measurements of relevant physical parameters,which is the bottle neck of lunar dust research. So far, Apollo's lunar dust observations still remain a scientific mystery. With China's Chang'e 3 lunar exploration data,scientists have obtained the dust deposition rates and maximum levitated height on the lunar surface. Compared with the previous Apollo measurements,these results indicate that the dust activity has significant regional differences. In Chang'e 5 lunar mission,the in-situ charging properties of levitated dust will be measured. To further promote the lunar dust research,it is very important to systematically and quantitatively measure the physical parameters of the lunar dust transportation in the high-latitude region in the future lunar missions,which will be vital to reveal the physical mechanism of dust transportation under different influence factors such as different latitude and longitude regions,different solar conditions,different solar wind conditions, and different terrain conditions. These measurements will provide quantitative constraints in theoretical models and will surely lead to new and important scientific discoveries.

Key words: lunar dust, scientific topics, research progress, detection scheme

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  • P184.5
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