The origin of lunar crater rays

Icarus

Volumn 170, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 1-16

  Hawke, B Ray ^a   Blewett, D T ^b   Lucey, P G ^a   Smith, G A ^a   Bell III , J F ^c   Campbell, B A ^d   Robinson, M S ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b NovaSol   (United States)

^c Cornell University ^*  (United States)

^d SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION   (United States)

^e NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cratering; Impact processes; Moon; Radar; Spectroscopy; Surface

Indexed keywords

EID: 3142779893     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2004.02.013     Document Type: Article

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