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Table 2 Diurnal (sdiurnal) and annual (sannual) skin depths for bedrock, coarse regolith, and dust, assuming material parameters as given in Table 1. “Porous rock” and “coarse regolith” are synonyms in this paper

From: Effects of dust layers on thermal emission from airless bodies

Material

sdiurnal [m]

sannual (m)

Bedrock

0.0790

3.05

Porous rock

0.0270

1.04

Dust

0.00924

0.357