Lunar coordinates in the regions of the Apollo landers

Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets

Volumn 105, Issue E8, 2000, Pages 20277-20280

  Davies, Merton E ^a   Colvin, Tim R ^a  

^a RAND CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LASER METHOD; MAPPING; MOON; VERY LONG BASELINE INTERFEROMETRY;

EID: 0033765804     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1999JE001165     Document Type: Article

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