Lunar radar sounder observations of subsurface layers under the nearside maria of the moon

Science

Volumn 323, Issue 5916, 2009, Pages 909-912

  Ono, Takayuki ^a   Kumamoto, Atsushi ^a   Nakagawa, Hiromu ^a   Yamaguchi, Yasushi ^b   Oshigami, Shoko ^b   Yamaji, Atsushi ^c   Kobayashi, Takao ^d   Kasahara, Yoshiya ^e   Oya, Hiroshi ^f  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d Korea Institute of Geosceince and Mineral Resources   (South Korea)

^e KANAZAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^f FUKUI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LANDSCAPE EVOLUTION; MOON; RADAR; TECTONICS;

ARTICLE; B SCAN; CHRONOLOGY; GEOLOGY; LITHOSPHERE; MOON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRATIFICATION; STRATIGRAPHY; TELECOMMUNICATION;

EID: 60149089660     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1165988     Document Type: Article

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