Searching for high alumina mare basalts using Clementine UVVIS and Lunar Prospector GRS data: Mare Fecunditatis and Mare Imbrium

Icarus

Volumn 198, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 7-18

  Kramer, Georgiana Y ^a,b   Jolliff, Bradley L ^c   Neal, Clive R ^b  

^a Bear Fight Center   (United States)

^b University of Notre Dame   (United States)

^c WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Moon; surface

Indexed keywords

EID: 53949117977     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: 10902643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2008.06.009     Document Type: Article

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