Microwave Simulation Experiments on Regolith (Lunar Dust) Deposition on Stainless Steel. 2021

Nina N Skvortsova, and Vladimir D Stepakhin, and Andrey A Sorokin, and Dmitry V Malakhov, and Namik G Gusein-Zade, and Nailya S Akhmadullina, and Valentin D Borzosekov, and Elena V Voronova, and Oleg N Shishilov
Prokhorov General Physics Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 119991 Moscow, Russia.

In this article, results are presented of experiments on depositing charged particles, which imitate the levitating dust on the Moon, on stainless steel. Ensembles of particles are created above the surface of laboratory regolith whose composition and particle size distribution imitate the dust that covers the Moon's surface. Under the action of the gyrotron radiation on regolith, non-linear physical-chemical processes develop (breakdown, chain plasmachemical reactions, and particle scattering by the Coulomb mechanism), which lead to the appearance of a levitating cloud of particles. The simulation experiment is based on the similarity between the processes that develop in the laboratory experiments with regolith and the processes that occur on the Moon during its bombardment by micrometeorites. The effect of the levitating cloud on stainless steel plates is studied and it is shown that regolith particles in the shape of spheroids of different sizes are deposited on the surface of the plates. The dimensions of the deposited particles and the density of their placement depend on the quality of treatment of the plate surface. It is shown that the laboratory-produced dusty plasma can be used in simulation experiments to study the modification of surfaces of different materials for space technology.

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