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JSC-1A
| origin | the JSC-1A material was mined from a commercial cinder quarry at Merriam Crater, a volcanic cinder cone located in the San Francisco volcano field near Flagstaff, Arizona. The sample was produced to match the Apollo 14 sample 14163. No chemical processing was performed on the simulant |
| main constituent | basaltic ash with a high glass content |
| practical significance | Mare lunar regolith simulant. |
| particle size | measured size distributions Mie: reff=15.85 μm, v Fraunhofer: reff=10.50 μm, veff=1.69 |
| particle shape | irregular |
| refractive index | 1.65 + i0.003 (Goguen et al. 2010)
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| color | dark gray |
| scattering matrix | 488 nm 520 nm 647 nm |
| article | Escobar-Cerezo J, Muñoz O, Moreno F, Guirado, D, Gómez Martín JC, Goguen JD, Garboczi EJ, Chiaramonti AN, Lafarge T, West RA. An Experimental Scattering Matrix for Lunar Regolith Simulant JSC-1A at Visible Wavelengths. The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, vol. 235, pp. 19-27, 2018 |
