Submillimeter-Scale Topography of the Lunar Regolith

Icarus

Volumn 141, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 107-131

  Helfenstein, Paul ^a   Shepard, Michael K ^b  

^a Cornell University ^*  (United States)

^b BLOOMSBURG UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Apollo; Lunar regolith; Moon; Photometry; Stereophotogrammetry

Indexed keywords

EID: 0009257443     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/icar.1999.6160     Document Type: Article

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