TY - CHAP A1 - Bürger, Johanna A1 - Gundlach, Bastian A1 - Blum, Jürgen A1 - Hayne, Paul A1 - Läuter, Matthias A1 - Kramer, Tobias T1 - Lunar regolith properties derived from LRO/Diviner data and thermophysical modelling T2 - Europlanet Science Congress N2 - The Moon as our nearest celestial object is one of the most important bodies for space resource exploration and planetary science. However, knowledge of the physical properties of the lunar regolith is required for the exploitation of lunar resources and for understanding the Moon's geologic history. This knowledge comes mainly from Apollo in-situ experiments and returned samples, but the global distribution of these properties is still poorly understood. Remote sensing measurements offer the opportunity to derive properties of unsampled areas with the help of models. In our study, a microphysical thermal model for the lunar regolith was developed and the simulated surface temperatures were compared with thermal emission measurements from the Diviner radiometer on board the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) to derive regolith properties. This work expands upon previous investigations of lunar regolith properties using Diviner data, by more directly simulating physical properties such as particle size and porosity. Y1 - 2022 U6 - https://doi.org/10.5194/epsc2022-92 SP - EPSC2022-92 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Bürger, Johanna A1 - Hayne, Paul A1 - Gundlach, Bastian A1 - Läuter, Matthias A1 - Kramer, Tobias A1 - Blum, Jürgen T1 - Investigating the Latitudinal Dependence of Lunar Regolith Properties Using LRO/Diviner Data and a Microphysical Thermal Model T2 - Bulletin of the AAS N2 - Regolith is formed through weathering of the local rock by meteorite bombardment, space weathering (Pieters & Noble, 2016) and thermal erosion (Delbo et al., 2014). In the case of the Moon, the space weathering effects and diurnal temperature variations are reduced towards the poles. The aim of this study is to investigate whether the lunar regolith properties derived from the comparison of regolith temperatures measured by the Diviner radiometer (Paige et al., 2010) on board the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) with simulated temperatures derived from a microphysical thermal model show a latitudinal dependence. The developed microphysical thermal model expands upon previous models by more directly simulating regolith properties, such as grain radius and volume filling factor. Y1 - 2023 UR - https://baas.aas.org/pub/2023n8i207p02 VL - 55 IS - 8 ER -