Northern imbrium noritic anomaly

Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets

Volumn 114, Issue 9, 2009, Pages

  Isaacson, Peter J ^a   Pieters, Carlé M ^a  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANOMALY; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CRATER; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; MOON; MULTISPECTRAL IMAGE; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SPATIAL VARIATION; TOPOGRAPHY;

CITRUS RETICULATA;

EID: 72049094307     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008JE003293     Document Type: Article

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