The Lunar Poles: Water Ice or Chemically Trapped Hydrogen?

Icarus

Volumn 147, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 585-587

  Starukhina, Larissa V ^a   Shkuratov, Yurij G ^a  

^a V N KARAZIN KHARKIV NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Ukraine)

Author keywords

Ice; Lunar surface; Solar wind

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000498476     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/icar.2000.6476     Document Type: Article

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