A dehydrated space-weathered skin cloaking the hydrated interior of Ryugu

Noguchi, Takaaki; Matsumoto, Toru; Miyake, Akira; Igami, Yohei; Haruta, Mitsutaka; Saito, Hikaru; Hata, Satoshi; Seto, Yusuke; Miyahara, Masaaki; Tomioka, Naotaka; Ishii, Hope A.; Bradley, John P.; Ohtaki, Kenta K.; Dobrică, Elena; Leroux, Hugues; Le Guillou, Corentin; Jacob, Damien; de la Peña, Francisco; Laforet, Sylvain; Marinova, Maya; Langenhorst, Falko; Harries, Dennis; Beck, Pierre; Phan, Thi H.  V.; Rebois, Rolando; Abreu, Neyda M.; Gray, Jennifer; Zega, Thomas; Zanetta, Pierre-M.; Thompson, Michelle S.; Stroud, Rhonda; Burgess, Kate; Cymes, Brittany A.; Bridges, John C.; Hicks, Leon; Lee, Martin R.; Daly, Luke; Bland, Phil A.; Zolensky, Michael E.; Frank, David R.; Martinez, James; Tsuchiyama, Akira; Yasutake, Masahiro; Matsuno, Junya; Okumura, Shota; Mitsukawa, Itaru; Uesugi, Kentaro; Uesugi, Masayuki; Takeuchi, Akihisa; Sun, Mingqi; Enju, Satomi; Takigawa, Aki; Michikami, Tatsuhiro; Nakamura, Tomoki; Matsumoto, Megumi; Nakauchi, Yusuke; Abe, Masanao; Arakawa, Masahiko; Fujii, Atsushi; Hayakawa, Masahiko; Hirata, Naru; Hirata, Naoyuki; Honda, Rie; Honda, Chikatoshi; Hosoda, Satoshi; Iijima, Yu-ichi; Ikeda, Hitoshi; Ishiguro, Masateru; Ishihara, Yoshiaki; Iwata, Takahiro; Kawahara, Kousuke; Kikuchi, Shota; Kitazato, Kohei; Matsumoto, Koji; Matsuoka, Moe; Mimasu, Yuya; Miura, Akira; Morota, Tomokatsu; Nakazawa, Satoru; Namiki, Noriyuki; Noda, Hirotomo; Noguchi, Rina; Ogawa, Naoko; Ogawa, Kazunori; Okada, Tatsuaki; Okamoto, Chisato; Ono, Go; Ozaki, Masanobu; Saiki, Takanao; Sakatani, Naoya; Sawada, Hirotaka; Senshu, Hiroki; Shimaki, Yuri; Shirai, Kei; Sugita, Seiji; Takei, Yuto; Takeuchi, Hiroshi; Tanaka, Satoshi; Tatsumi, Eri; Terui, Fuyuto; Tsukizaki, Ryudo; Wada, Koji; Yamada, Manabu; Yamada, Tetsuya; Yamamoto, Yukio; Yano, Hajime; Yokota, Yasuhiro; Yoshihara, Keisuke; Yoshikawa, Makoto; Yoshikawa, Kent; Fukai, Ryohta; Furuya, Shizuho; Hatakeda, Kentaro; Hayashi, Tasuku; Hitomi, Yuya; Kumagai, Kazuya; Miyazaki, Akiko; Nakato, Aiko; Nishimura, Masahiro; Soejima, Hiromichi; Suzuki, Ayako I.; Usui, Tomohiro; Yada, Toru; Yamamoto, Daiki; Yogata, Kasumi; Yoshitake, Miwa; Connolly, Harold C.; Lauretta, Dante S.; Yurimoto, Hisayoshi; Nagashima, Kazuhide; Kawasaki, Noriyuki; Sakamoto, Naoya; Okazaki, Ryuji; Yabuta, Hikaru; Naraoka, Hiroshi; Sakamoto, Kanako; Tachibana, Shogo; Watanabe, Sei-ichiro; Tsuda, Yuichi

doi:10.1038/s41550-022-01841-6

A dehydrated space-weathered skin cloaking the hydrated interior of Ryugu

Journal Article · 18 December 2022 · Nature Astronomy

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41550-022-01841-6· OSTI ID:2422837

; Matsumoto, Toru; Miyake, Akira; Igami, Yohei; Haruta, Mitsutaka; Saito, Hikaru; Hata, Satoshi; Seto, Yusuke; ; ; ; Bradley, John P.; Ohtaki, Kenta K.; ; Leroux, Hugues; Le Guillou, Corentin; ; de la Peña, Francisco; ; Marinova, Maya more »

Abstract

Without a protective atmosphere, space-exposed surfaces of airless Solar System bodies gradually experience an alteration in composition, structure and optical properties through a collective process called space weathering. The return of samples from near-Earth asteroid (162173) Ryugu by Hayabusa2 provides the first opportunity for laboratory study of space-weathering signatures on the most abundant type of inner solar system body: a C-type asteroid, composed of materials largely unchanged since the formation of the Solar System. Weathered Ryugu grains show areas of surface amorphization and partial melting of phyllosilicates, in which reduction from Fe³⁺to Fe²⁺and dehydration developed. Space weathering probably contributed to dehydration by dehydroxylation of Ryugu surface phyllosilicates that had already lost interlayer water molecules and to weakening of the 2.7 µm hydroxyl (–OH) band in reflectance spectra. For C-type asteroids in general, this indicates that a weak 2.7 µm band can signify space-weathering-induced surface dehydration, rather than bulk volatile loss.

Research Organization:: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States). Molecular Foundry

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE

DOE Contract Number:: AC02-05CH11231

OSTI ID:: 2422837

Journal Information:: Nature Astronomy, Journal Name: Nature Astronomy Journal Issue: 2 Vol. 7; ISSN 2397-3366

Publisher:: Springer Nature

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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