A magnetic anomaly associated with an albedo feature near Airy crater in the lunar nearside highlands

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 34, Issue 24, 2007, Pages

  Blewett, David T ^a,b   Hawke, B R ^c   Richmond, N C ^d,e   Hughes, C G ^f  

^a NovaSol   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY APPLIED PHYSICS LABORATORY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^d PLANETARY SCIENCE INSTITUTE   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION METHODS; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; MAGNETIC FIELDS; OPTICAL TELESCOPES; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

ALBEDO; LUNAR NEARSIDE HIGHLANDS; MAGNETIC ANOMALY; MULTISPECTRAL IMAGES; TELESCOPIC SPECTRA;

GEOMAGNETISM;

ALBEDO; CRATER; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LUNAR CRUST; MAGNETIC ANOMALY; MAGNETOMETER;

CITRUS RETICULATA;

EID: 39549091107     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007GL031670     Document Type: Article

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