Comprehensive mass modeling of the Moon from spectrally correlated free-air and terrain gravity data

Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets

Volumn 108, Issue 4, 2003, Pages

  Potts, Laramie V ^a   von Frese, Ralph R B ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Core; Crust; Free air anomalies; Lunar terrain gravity; Mantle; Spectral correlation modeling

Indexed keywords

GRAVITY ANOMALY; LUNAR CRUST; MODELING; MOON; SPHERICAL HARMONICS;

EID: 0041344530     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2000je001440     Document Type: Article

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