New insight into lunar impact melt mobility from the LRO camera

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 37, Issue 21, 2010, Pages

  Bray, V J ^a   Tornabene, L L ^a   Keszthelyi, L P ^b   McEwen, A S ^a   Hawke, B R ^c   Giguere, T A ^c   Kattenhorn, S A ^d   Garry, W B ^e   Rizk, B ^a   Caudill, C M ^a   Gaddis, L R ^b   Van Der Bogert, C H ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b United States Geological Survey ^*  (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO   (United States)

^e DEPARTMENT OF PALEOBIOLOGY   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAMERAS; LAKES;

COOLING TIME; DISTINCTIVE FEATURES; IMPACT EVENTS; IMPACT MELT; LAVA FLOWS; LUNAR RECONNAISSANCE ORBITERS; MELT MOVEMENT; MELT PONDS; METER SCALE; MULTI-STAGE; TIME-PERIODS;

MOON;

CRATER; IMAGING METHOD; LAVA FLOW; LUNAR CRUST; MELT;

EID: 78649305927     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010GL044666     Document Type: Article

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