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- Definition processes that change the physical structure, optical properties, or chemical or mineralogical properties of the surface of an airless planetary body from their original state Reference "ESRIC - European Space Resources Innovation Centre > Knowledge > ESRIC’s Knowledge Sharing Platform > Space Resources from A to Z > S > Space Weathering (22.2.2023)"
- Comment These processes include meteorite, micrometeorite, and cosmic dust bombardment, solar wind ion implantation, and sputtering, in deep vacuum and temperatures approaching absolute zero (-273 oC).