List of works - Mahesh Anand

A brief review of chemical and mineralogical resources on the Moon and likely initial in situ resource utilization (ISRU) applications

A cone on Mercury: Analysis of a residual central peak encircled by an explosive volcanic vent

scientific article

A deuterium-poor water reservoir in the asteroid 4 Vesta and the inner solar system

scientific article published in March 2021

A quantitative evolved gas analysis for extra-terrestrial samples

scientific article published in February 2020

Accurate and precise measurements of the D/H ratio and hydroxyl content in lunar apatites using NanoSIMS

scholarly article

An ancient reservoir of volatiles in the Moon sampled by lunar meteorite Northwest Africa 10989

scientific article

An asteroidal origin for water in the Moon ⬇️

scientific article published on 31 May 2016

Ancient volcanism on the Moon: Insights from Pb isotopes in the MIL 13317 and Kalahari 009 lunar meteorites

scholarly article by Joshua F. Snape et al published November 2018 in Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Apatites in lunar KREEP basalts: The missing link to understanding the H isotope systematics of the Moon

scholarly article

Back to the Moon: The scientific rationale for resuming lunar surface exploration

article by Ian Crawford et al published December 2012 in Planetary and Space Science

Carbonate xenoliths hosted by the Mesoproterozoic Siddanpalli Kimberlite Cluster (Eastern Dharwar craton): implications for the geodynamic evolution of southern India and its diamond and uranium metallogenesis

scientific article published in 2009

Characterization of mesostasis regions in lunar basalts: Understanding late-stage melt evolution and its influence on apatite formation

scholarly article

Chlorine isotopic compositions of apatite in Apollo 14 rocks: Evidence for widespread vapor-phase metasomatism on the lunar nearside ∼4 billion years ago

article by Nicola J. Potts et al published June 2018 in Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta

Combined investigation of H isotopic compositions and U-Pb chronology of young Martian meteorite Larkman Nunatak 06319

article

Constraining the Evolutionary History of the Moon and the Inner Solar System: A Case for New Returned Lunar Samples

article by Romain Tartèse et al published December 2019 in Space Science Reviews

Corrigendum to “Late delivery of chondritic hydrogen into the lunar mantle: Insights from mare basalts” [Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 361 (2013) 480–486]

scholarly article by Romain Tartèse & Mahesh Anand published March 2014 in Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Cryptomare magmatism 4.35 Gyr ago recorded in lunar meteorite Kalahari 009.

scientific article published on December 2007

Deuterium and 37Chlorine Rich Fluids on the Surface of Mars: Evidence From the Enriched Basaltic Shergottite Northwest Africa 8657

scientific article published in September 2020

Diamonds: time capsules from the Siberian Mantle

Discriminating bacterial from electrochemical corrosion using Fe isotopes

Dust from collisions: A way to probe the composition of exo-planets?

article

Early degassing of lunar urKREEP by crust-breaching impact(s)

scholarly article

Evidence of extensive lunar crust formation in impact melt sheets 4,330 Myr ago

scientific article published on 11 May 2020

Evolved mare basalt magmatism, high Mg/Fe feldspathic crust, chondritic impactors, and the petrogenesis of Antarctic lunar breccia meteorites Meteorite Hills 01210 and Pecora Escarpment 02007

article by James M.D. Day et al published December 2006 in Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta

Experimental investigation of F, Cl, and OH partitioning between apatite and Fe-rich basaltic melt at 1.0–1.2 GPa and 950–1000 °C

scholarly article in American Mineralogist, vol. 100 no. 8-9, August 2015

Exploring the Moon: a UK perspective

Explosive volcanism in complex impact craters on Mercury and the Moon: Influence of tectonic regime on depth of magmatic intrusion

scholarly article by Rebecca J. Thomas et al published December 2015 in Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Extra-terrestrial construction processes – Advancements, opportunities and challenges

Feasibility studies for hydrogen reduction of ilmenite in a static system for use as an ISRU demonstration on the lunar surface

scientific article published in January 2020

Geologic history of Martian regolith breccia Northwest Africa 7034: Evidence for hydrothermal activity and lithologic diversity in the Martian crust

scholarly article

Geology, geochemistry, and geophysics of the Moon: Status of current understanding

scholarly article by R. Jaumann et al published December 2012 in Planetary and Space Science

H and Cl isotope characteristics of indigenous and late hydrothermal fluids on the differentiated asteroidal parent body of Grave Nunataks 06128

scholarly article

H and Cl isotope systematics of apatite in brecciated lunar meteorites Northwest Africa 4472, Northwest Africa 773, Sayh al Uhaymir 169, and Kalahari 009

article

High pressure minerals in the Château-Renard (L6) ordinary chondrite: implications for collisions on its parent body.

scientific article published on 29 June 2018

Hollows on Mercury: Materials and mechanisms involved in their formation

Hydrogen reduction of ilmenite: Towards an in situ resource utilization demonstration on the surface of the Moon

scientific article published in January 2020

Investigating magmatic processes in the early Solar System using the Cl isotopic systematics of eucrites

scientific article published in December 2019

Investigating the microwave heating behaviour of lunar soil simulant JSC-1A at different input powers

scientific article published on 22 January 2021

Isotopic evidence for pallasite formation by impact mixing of olivine and metal during the first 10 million years of the Solar System

scholarly article

Laboratory experiments on the weathering of iron meteorites and carbonaceous chondrites by iron-oxidizing bacteria

scholarly article

Late delivery of chondritic hydrogen into the lunar mantle: Insights from mare basalts

scholarly article

Late movement of basin-edge lobate scarps on Mercury

Long-lived explosive volcanism on Mercury

scholarly article

Lunar Net—a proposal in response to an ESA M3 call in 2010 for a medium sized mission

article by Alan Smith et al published 1 September 2011 in Experimental Astronomy

Lunar Phosphates Record Impact Cratering Events at Micro to Nano Scales

scientific article published on 23 March 2020

Lunar Water: A Brief Review

article

Lunar basalt chronology, mantle differentiation and implications for determining the age of the Moon

scholarly article by Joshua F. Snape et al published October 2016 in Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Lunar samples record an impact 4.2 billion years ago that may have formed the Serenitatis Basin

scholarly article

Magmatic volatiles (H, C, N, F, S, Cl) in the lunar mantle, crust, and regolith: Abundances, distributions, processes, and reservoirs

article by Francis M. McCubbin et al published August 2015 in American Mineralogist

Mass dependent fractionation of stable chromium isotopes in mare basalts: Implications for the formation and the differentiation of the Moon

scholarly article

Mechanisms of explosive volcanism on Mercury: Implications from its global distribution and morphology

scholarly article

Mercury's surface and composition to be studied by BepiColombo

article

Microtextures in the Chelyabinsk impact breccia reveal the history of Phosphorus‐Olivine‐Assemblages in chondrites

scholarly article

Microwave processing of lunar soil for supporting longer-term surface exploration on the Moon

article by Vibha Srivastava et al published August 2016 in Space Policy

Mid-infrared spectra of differentiated meteorites (achondrites): Comparison with astronomical observations of dust in protoplanetary and debris disks

scientific article

Multi-stage metasomatism of diamondiferous eclogite xenoliths from the Udachnaya kimberlite pipe, Yakutia, Siberia

scientific article

Multiple early-formed water reservoirs in the interior of Mars

scientific article published on 30 March 2020

Multiple reservoirs of volatiles in the Moon revealed by the isotopic composition of chlorine in lunar basalts

article

Multiple sulfur isotopic reservoirs in the Moon and implications for the evolution of planetary interiors

scientific article published on 2 September 2020

Multiple-mineral inclusions in diamonds from the Snap Lake/King Lake kimberlite dike, Slave craton, Canada: a trace-element perspective

article

NanoSIMS Pb/Pb dating of tranquillityite in high-Ti lunar basalts: Implications for the chronology of high-Ti volcanism on the Moon

article by R. Tartese et al published 1 August 2013 in American Mineralogist

Nature of diamonds in Yakutian eclogites: views from eclogite tomography and mineral inclusions in diamonds

New Ar–Ar ages of southern Indian kimberlites and a lamproite and their geochemical evolution

Numerical modelling of the microwave heating behaviour of lunar regolith

article by Sungwoo Lim & Mahesh Anand published December 2019 in Planetary and Space Science

On the iron isotope composition of Mars and volatile depletion in the terrestrial planets

article

Origin and Evolution of Water in the Moon's Interior

scientific article

Oxygen isotope and petrological study of silicate inclusions in IIE iron meteorites and their relationship with H chondrites

scholarly article

Oxygen isotopic evidence for accretion of Earth's water before a high-energy Moon-forming giant impact.

scientific article

Performance of new generation swept charge devices for lunar x-ray spectroscopy on Chandrayaan-2

scholarly article published 25 September 2012

Petrogenesis of group?A eclogites and websterites: evidence from the Obnazhennaya kimberlite, Yakutia

scientific article

Petrogenesis of lunar meteorite EET 96008

article by Mahesh Anand et al published September 2003 in Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta

Petrology and geochemistry of LaPaz Icefield 02205: A new unique low-Ti mare-basalt meteorite

scholarly article by Mahesh Anand et al published January 2006 in Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta

Petrology of igneous clasts in Northwest Africa 7034: Implications for the petrologic diversity of the martian crust

scientific article

Planetary science. Analyzing Moon rocks

scientific article published on April 2014

Predominantly non-solar origin of nitrogen in lunar soils

article by James Mortimer et al published November 2016 in Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta

Preservation of primordial signatures of water in highly-shocked ancient lunar rocks

scientific article published in August 2020

Quantifying noble gas contamination during terrestrial alteration in Martian meteorites from Antarctica

Regions of interest (ROI) for future exploration missions to the lunar South Pole

scientific article published in January 2020

Searching for signatures of life on Mars: an Fe-isotope perspective.

scientific article published in October 2006

Shock‐induced microtextures in lunar apatite and merrillite

scholarly article

Silicon isotope variations in the inner solar system: Implications for planetary formation, differentiation and composition

article

Simultaneous analysis of abundance and isotopic composition of nitrogen, carbon, and noble gases in lunar basalts: Insights into interior and surface processes on the Moon

article

Space weathering on airless planetary bodies: Clues from the lunar mineral hapkeite

scientific article (publication date: 26 April 2004)

Stable isotope analysis of carbon and nitrogen in angrites

scholarly article

The BepiColombo Mercury Imaging X-Ray Spectrometer: Science Goals, Instrument Performance and Operations

scientific article published on 3 November 2020

The C1XS X-ray Spectrometer on Chandrayaan-1

The Chandrayaan-1 X-ray Spectrometer: First results

journal article

The abundance and isotopic composition of water in eucrites

scholarly article

The abundance, distribution, and isotopic composition of Hydrogen in the Moon as revealed by basaltic lunar samples: Implications for the volatile inventory of the Moon

article

The chlorine isotopic composition of the Moon: Insights from melt inclusions

The hydrogen isotopic composition of lunar melt inclusions: An interplay of complex magmatic and secondary processes

scientific article published in September 2020

The lunar Dhofar 1436 meteorite: 40Ar‐39Ar chronology and volatiles, revealed by stepwise combustion and crushing methods

scientific article

The mercury imaging X-ray spectrometer (MIXS) on bepicolombo

The mineralogy, petrology, and composition of anomalous eucrite Emmaville

scholarly article

The origin of water in the primitive Moon as revealed by the lunar highlands samples

scholarly article

The oxygen isotope composition, petrology and geochemistry of mare basalts: Evidence for large-scale compositional variation in the lunar mantle

article

The petrology and geochemistry of Miller Range 05035: A new lunar gabbroic meteorite

scholarly article by Katherine Joy et al published August 2008 in Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta

The potential science and engineering value of samples delivered to Earth by Mars sample return

scientific article published in March 2019

The scientific rationale for the C1XS X-ray spectrometer on India's Chandrayaan-1 mission to the moon

The shocking state of apatite and merrillite in shergottite Northwest Africa 5298 and extreme nanoscale chlorine isotope variability revealed by atom probe tomography

scientific article published in January 2021

The timing of basaltic volcanism at the Apollo landing sites

scholarly article

Trace-element modelling of mare basalt parental melts: Implications for a heterogeneous lunar mantle

article by L.J. Hallis et al published June 2014 in Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta

Understanding the origin and evolution of water in the Moon through lunar sample studies

scientific article

Uranium–lead systematics of low-Ti basaltic meteorite Dhofar 287A: Affinity to Apollo 15 green glasses

scholarly article

Uranium–lead systematics of phosphates in lunar basaltic regolith breccia, Meteorite Hills 01210

scholarly article by Kentaro Terada et al published July 2007 in Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Water in evolved lunar rocks: Evidence for multiple reservoirs

article by Katharine L. Robinson et al published September 2016 in Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta

What is the Oxygen Isotope Composition of Venus? The Scientific Case for Sample Return from Earth’s “Sister” Planet

scientific article published on 11 May 2020

List of works by Mahesh Anand

A brief review of chemical and mineralogical resources on the Moon and likely initial in situ resource utilization (ISRU) applications

A cone on Mercury: Analysis of a residual central peak encircled by an explosive volcanic vent

A deuterium-poor water reservoir in the asteroid 4 Vesta and the inner solar system

A quantitative evolved gas analysis for extra-terrestrial samples

Accurate and precise measurements of the D/H ratio and hydroxyl content in lunar apatites using NanoSIMS

An ancient reservoir of volatiles in the Moon sampled by lunar meteorite Northwest Africa 10989

An asteroidal origin for water in the Moon ⬇️

Ancient volcanism on the Moon: Insights from Pb isotopes in the MIL 13317 and Kalahari 009 lunar meteorites

Apatites in lunar KREEP basalts: The missing link to understanding the H isotope systematics of the Moon

Back to the Moon: The scientific rationale for resuming lunar surface exploration

Carbonate xenoliths hosted by the Mesoproterozoic Siddanpalli Kimberlite Cluster (Eastern Dharwar craton): implications for the geodynamic evolution of southern India and its diamond and uranium metallogenesis

Characterization of mesostasis regions in lunar basalts: Understanding late-stage melt evolution and its influence on apatite formation

Chlorine isotopic compositions of apatite in Apollo 14 rocks: Evidence for widespread vapor-phase metasomatism on the lunar nearside ∼4 billion years ago

Combined investigation of H isotopic compositions and U-Pb chronology of young Martian meteorite Larkman Nunatak 06319

Constraining the Evolutionary History of the Moon and the Inner Solar System: A Case for New Returned Lunar Samples

Corrigendum to “Late delivery of chondritic hydrogen into the lunar mantle: Insights from mare basalts” [Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 361 (2013) 480–486]

Cryptomare magmatism 4.35 Gyr ago recorded in lunar meteorite Kalahari 009.

Deuterium and 37Chlorine Rich Fluids on the Surface of Mars: Evidence From the Enriched Basaltic Shergottite Northwest Africa 8657

Diamonds: time capsules from the Siberian Mantle

Discriminating bacterial from electrochemical corrosion using Fe isotopes

Dust from collisions: A way to probe the composition of exo-planets?

Early degassing of lunar urKREEP by crust-breaching impact(s)

Evidence of extensive lunar crust formation in impact melt sheets 4,330 Myr ago

Evolved mare basalt magmatism, high Mg/Fe feldspathic crust, chondritic impactors, and the petrogenesis of Antarctic lunar breccia meteorites Meteorite Hills 01210 and Pecora Escarpment 02007

Experimental investigation of F, Cl, and OH partitioning between apatite and Fe-rich basaltic melt at 1.0–1.2 GPa and 950–1000 °C

Exploring the Moon: a UK perspective

Explosive volcanism in complex impact craters on Mercury and the Moon: Influence of tectonic regime on depth of magmatic intrusion

Extra-terrestrial construction processes – Advancements, opportunities and challenges

Feasibility studies for hydrogen reduction of ilmenite in a static system for use as an ISRU demonstration on the lunar surface

Geologic history of Martian regolith breccia Northwest Africa 7034: Evidence for hydrothermal activity and lithologic diversity in the Martian crust

Geology, geochemistry, and geophysics of the Moon: Status of current understanding

H and Cl isotope characteristics of indigenous and late hydrothermal fluids on the differentiated asteroidal parent body of Grave Nunataks 06128

H and Cl isotope systematics of apatite in brecciated lunar meteorites Northwest Africa 4472, Northwest Africa 773, Sayh al Uhaymir 169, and Kalahari 009

High pressure minerals in the Château-Renard (L6) ordinary chondrite: implications for collisions on its parent body.

Hollows on Mercury: Materials and mechanisms involved in their formation

Hydrogen reduction of ilmenite: Towards an in situ resource utilization demonstration on the surface of the Moon

Investigating magmatic processes in the early Solar System using the Cl isotopic systematics of eucrites

Investigating the microwave heating behaviour of lunar soil simulant JSC-1A at different input powers

Isotopic evidence for pallasite formation by impact mixing of olivine and metal during the first 10 million years of the Solar System

Laboratory experiments on the weathering of iron meteorites and carbonaceous chondrites by iron-oxidizing bacteria

Late delivery of chondritic hydrogen into the lunar mantle: Insights from mare basalts

Late movement of basin-edge lobate scarps on Mercury

Long-lived explosive volcanism on Mercury

Lunar Net—a proposal in response to an ESA M3 call in 2010 for a medium sized mission

Lunar Phosphates Record Impact Cratering Events at Micro to Nano Scales

Lunar Water: A Brief Review

Lunar basalt chronology, mantle differentiation and implications for determining the age of the Moon

Lunar samples record an impact 4.2 billion years ago that may have formed the Serenitatis Basin

Magmatic volatiles (H, C, N, F, S, Cl) in the lunar mantle, crust, and regolith: Abundances, distributions, processes, and reservoirs

Mass dependent fractionation of stable chromium isotopes in mare basalts: Implications for the formation and the differentiation of the Moon

Mechanisms of explosive volcanism on Mercury: Implications from its global distribution and morphology

Mercury's surface and composition to be studied by BepiColombo

Microtextures in the Chelyabinsk impact breccia reveal the history of Phosphorus‐Olivine‐Assemblages in chondrites

Microwave processing of lunar soil for supporting longer-term surface exploration on the Moon

Mid-infrared spectra of differentiated meteorites (achondrites): Comparison with astronomical observations of dust in protoplanetary and debris disks

Multi-stage metasomatism of diamondiferous eclogite xenoliths from the Udachnaya kimberlite pipe, Yakutia, Siberia

Multiple early-formed water reservoirs in the interior of Mars

Multiple reservoirs of volatiles in the Moon revealed by the isotopic composition of chlorine in lunar basalts

Multiple sulfur isotopic reservoirs in the Moon and implications for the evolution of planetary interiors

Multiple-mineral inclusions in diamonds from the Snap Lake/King Lake kimberlite dike, Slave craton, Canada: a trace-element perspective

NanoSIMS Pb/Pb dating of tranquillityite in high-Ti lunar basalts: Implications for the chronology of high-Ti volcanism on the Moon

Nature of diamonds in Yakutian eclogites: views from eclogite tomography and mineral inclusions in diamonds

New Ar–Ar ages of southern Indian kimberlites and a lamproite and their geochemical evolution

Numerical modelling of the microwave heating behaviour of lunar regolith

On the iron isotope composition of Mars and volatile depletion in the terrestrial planets

Origin and Evolution of Water in the Moon's Interior

Oxygen isotope and petrological study of silicate inclusions in IIE iron meteorites and their relationship with H chondrites

Oxygen isotopic evidence for accretion of Earth's water before a high-energy Moon-forming giant impact.

Performance of new generation swept charge devices for lunar x-ray spectroscopy on Chandrayaan-2

Petrogenesis of group?A eclogites and websterites: evidence from the Obnazhennaya kimberlite, Yakutia

Petrogenesis of lunar meteorite EET 96008

Petrology and geochemistry of LaPaz Icefield 02205: A new unique low-Ti mare-basalt meteorite

Petrology of igneous clasts in Northwest Africa 7034: Implications for the petrologic diversity of the martian crust

Planetary science. Analyzing Moon rocks

Predominantly non-solar origin of nitrogen in lunar soils

Preservation of primordial signatures of water in highly-shocked ancient lunar rocks

Quantifying noble gas contamination during terrestrial alteration in Martian meteorites from Antarctica

Regions of interest (ROI) for future exploration missions to the lunar South Pole

Searching for signatures of life on Mars: an Fe-isotope perspective.

Chlorine isotopic compositions of apatite in Apollo 14 rocks: Evidence for widespread vapor-phase metasomatism on the lunar nearside ∼4 billion years ago