Lunar Cold Traps: Effects of Double Shielding

Icarus

Volumn 142, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 402-413

  Carruba, V ^a   Coradini, A ^b  

^a Department of Population Medicine and Diagnostic Sciences   (United States)

^b INAF IASF ROMA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Ices; Moon; Moon surface

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001178289     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/icar.1999.6192     Document Type: Article

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