Carle M. Pieters

TL;DR: Analysis of recent infrared mapping by Chandrayaan-1 and Deep Impact, and reexamining Cassini data obtained during its early flyby of the Moon, Pieters et al. reveal a noticeable absorption signal for H2O and OH across much of the surface, implying that solar wind is depositing and/or somehow forming water and OH in minerals near the lunar surface, and that this trapped water is dynamic.

TL;DR: In this article, the products of space weathering of lunar soils were examined and it was shown that nanophase reduced iron (npFe0) is produced on the surface of grains by a combination of vapor deposition and irradiation effects.

TL;DR: Remote geochemical analysis offers a powerful tool to study the elemental and mineralogical composition of our planet from its interior through to its atmosphere and to explore our solar system as mentioned in this paper, which has become possible because of major advances in sensor technology.

TL;DR: An improved approach to spectral deconvolution is presented in this article that accurately represents absorption bands as discrete mathematical distributions and resolves composite absorption features into individual absorption bands, and a modified Gaussian model is derived using a power law relationship of energy to average bond length.

TL;DR: In this article, the absorption of H20 in montmorillonites was studied using reflectance spectroscopy in the infrared and band assignments were made for absorption in the 3 ~tm region due to structural OH vibrations, symmetric and asymmetric 1-120 stretching vibrations and the H20 bending overtone.