Lunar properties from transient and steady magnetic field measurements |
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| Authors: | Palmer Dyal Curtis W Parkin |
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| Institution: | (1) NASA-Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif., USA |
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| Abstract: | The electrical conductivity of the lunar interior has been determined from magnetic field step transients measured on the lunar dark side. The simplest model which best fits the data is a spherically symmetric three layer model having a nonconducting outer crust of radial thickness  0.03R
moon; an intermediate layer of thickness R0.37R
moon, with electrical conductivity
1 3.5 × 10–4 mhos/m; and an inner core of radiusR
2 0.6R
m
with conductivity
2 10–2 mhos/m. Temperatures calculated from these conductivities in the three regions for an example of an olivine Moon are as follows: crust, < 440 K; intermediate layer, 890 K; and core, 1240 K. The whole-moon relative permeability has been calculated from the measurements to be /
0 = 1.03 ± 0.13. Remanent magnetic fields at the landing sites are 38 ± 3 at Apollo 12, 43 ± 6 and 103 ± 5 at two Apollo 14 sites separated by 1.1 km, and 6 ± 4 at the Apollo 15 site. Measurements show that the 38 remanent field at the Apollo 12 site is compressed to 54 by a solar wind pressure increase of 7 × 10–8 dynes/cm2.National Research Council Postdoctoral Associate. |
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