Space weathering on airless bodies: Resolving a mystery with lunar samples

Meteoritics and Planetary Science

Volumn 35, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 1101-1107

  Pieters, Carlé M ^a   Taylor, Larry A ^b   Noble, Sarah K ^a   Keller, Lindsay P ^c   Hapke, Bruce ^d   Morris, Richard V ^e   Allen, Carl C ^f   McKAY, David S ^e   Wentworth, Susan ^f  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

^c MVA SCIENTIFIC CONSULTANTS   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^e NASA JOHNSON SPACE CENTER   (United States)

^f LOCKHEED MARTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LUNAR SOIL; MOON; WEATHERING;

EID: 0033787147     PISSN: 10869379     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1945-5100.2000.tb01496.x     Document Type: Article

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