Researcher
Tenure in FRIS 2016.4-2019.3
Masahiro Kayama
Assistant ProfessorAdvanced Basic Science
- Mentor Information
- Professor
- Tomoki Nakamura (Graduate School of Science)
| Research Fields | Planetary Science, Meteoritics, Mineralogy, Spectroscopy |
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| Academic Society Membership | Japan Geoscience Union, Japan Association of Mineralogical Sciences, The Geological Society of Japan |
| Research Outline | |
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Water has been discovered on the Moon by remote sensing spacecraft, but the origin cannot be well understood by conventional theories of the solar wind and comet/asteroid collisions. In this study, we first identified the mantle-originated water from the lunar meteorites using infrared spectroscopy, and found the lunar fluid-originated minerals by electron microscopy, X-ray diffraction and Raman spectroscopy. Our new findings also revealed that the lunar plutonism plays a role in significant water supply sources from the mantle to the surface. |
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