乾燥した月面マントルの貯水池は,Chang'e-5の若いメアベサルトである
Sen Hu1, Huicun He2, Jianglong Ji2
1Key Laboratory of the Earth and Planetary Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China. husen@mail.iggcas.ac.cn.
Nature
|October 19, 2021
まとめ
チャンエ5号のミッションは 月の最も若い火山活動が 水の豊富さによって引き起こされなかったことを明らかにしました 月面の玄武岩の分析は,脱水したマントルの源を示し,水は以前の火山のプロセスによって除去されたことを示唆しています.
科学分野:
- 月の地質学
- 宇宙化学
- 惑星科学
背景:
- 月面の水分分布は 月面の起源と進化に影響します
- チャンエ5号は若いメア・バサルト (約20億年) を帰還した.
研究 の 目的:
- チェンジ5の塩基岩の水分と水素同位体を調べる
- 月のマントルの水分量が若い火山の発生源を決定する
主な方法:
- アパタイトとイルメナイトがChang'e-5バザルトから溶けたインクルージョンを分析した.
- 水分とデュテリウム/水素の比率の測定
主要な成果:
- 出生マグマの最大水分量は283 ±22 μg/gである.
- 出産マグマのデュテリウム/水素比: (1.06 ± 0.25) × 10−4.
- マントルの最大水分量は1~5μg/gと推定されている.
結論:
- 最新の月の火山活動 (Chang'e-5) は水によるものではなかった.
- マントルの源地地域は,以前に溶けたものを抽出したため,おそらく2.0億年前に脱水していた.
- これは,以前の時期と比較して月のマントルの水分含有量が低いことを示しています.
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