Possible lunar lava tube skylight observed by SELENE cameras

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 36, Issue 21, 2009, Pages

  Haruyama, Junichi ^a   Hioki, Kazuyuki ^b   Shirao, Motomaro ^c   Morota, Tomokatsu ^a   Hiesinger, Harald ^d   Van Der Bogert, Carolyn H ^d   Miyamoto, Hideaki ^e   Iwasaki, Akira ^f   Yokota, Yasuhiro ^a   Ohtake, Makiko ^a   Matsunaga, Tsuneo ^g   Hara, Seiichi ^b   Nakanotani, Shunsuke ^h   Pieters, Carle M ^a  

^a JAPAN AEROSPACE EXPLORATION AGENCY   (Japan)

^b Sanno Grand Bldg   (Japan)

^c Westfälische Wilhelms Universität ^*

^d UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^f NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES   (Japan)

^g MITSUBISHI SPACE SOFTWARE CO LTD   (Japan)

^h BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HIGH RESOLUTION CAMERA; IMPACT CRATERS; MULTIBAND; SOLAR ILLUMINATION; VOLCANIC ERUPTIONS;

HYDRAULIC STRUCTURES; MOON; VOLCANOES; WINDOWS;

CAMERAS;

CRATER; DATA SET; LAVA; LUNAR CRUST; METEORITE; MOON; PHOTOGRAPHY;

EID: 72049133390     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009GL040635     Document Type: Article

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