Crustal thickness of the Moon: New constraints from gravity inversions using polyhedral shape models

Icarus

Volumn 192, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 150-166

  Hikida, Hajime ^a   Wieczorek, Mark A ^b  

^a GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

^b INSTITUT DE PHYSIQUE DU GLOBE DE PARIS   (France)

Author keywords

Impact processes; interior; Moon

Indexed keywords

EID: 36049008459     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: 10902643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2007.06.015     Document Type: Article

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