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Planetary science

cracking of rocks on small airless bodies by repeated day-night temperature cycling, proposed as a main source of their regolith.

In planetary science, thermal fatigue refers to cracking of rocks on small airless bodies by repeated day-night temperature cycling, proposed as a main source of their regolith. This meaning comes from Delbo (2014) in Nature.[1]

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Delbo, M., Libourel, G., Wilkerson, J., Murdoch, N., Michel, P., Ramesh, K. T., Ganino, C., Verati, C., & Marchi, S. (2014). Thermal fatigue as the origin of regolith on small asteroids. Nature, 508(7495), 233-236. https://doi.org/10.1038/nature13153

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