Lunar impact basins revealed by Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory measurements
Lunar impact basins revealed by Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory measurements
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2015-10-30
Authors
Neumann, Gregory A.
Zuber, Maria T.
Wieczorek, Mark A.
Head, James W.
Baker, David M. H.
Solomon, Sean C.
Smith, David E.
Lemoine, Frank G.
Mazarico, Erwan
Sabaka, Terence J.
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American Association for the Advancement of Science
Abstract
Observations from the Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) mission indicate a marked change in the gravitational signature of lunar impact structures at the morphological transition, with increasing diameter, from complex craters to peak-ring basins.
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GRAIL (Artificial satellites),
Impact craters,
Lunar craters
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Lunar impact basins revealed by Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory measurements By Gregory A. Neumann, Maria T. Zuber, Mark A. Wieczorek, James W. Head, David M. H. Baker, Sean C. Solomon, David E. Smith, Frank G. Lemoine, Erwan Mazarico, Terence J. Sabaka, Sander J. Goossens, H. Jay Melosh, Roger J. Phillips, Sami W. Asmar, Alexander S. Konopliv, James G. Williams, Michael M. Sori, Jason M. Soderblom, Katarina Miljković, Jeffrey C. Andrews-Hanna, Francis Nimmo, Walter S. Kiefer Science Advances 30 Oct 2015 : e1500852