Apollo 12 Lunar Module exhaust plume impingement on Lunar Surveyor III

Icarus

Volumn 211, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 1089-1102

  Immer, Christopher ^a   Metzger, Philip ^a   Hintze, Paul E ^a   Nick, Andrew ^a   Horan, Ryan ^a  

^a KENNEDY SPACE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Cratering; Experimental techniques; Impact processes; Moon, Surface

Indexed keywords

EID: 79151476373     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: 10902643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2010.11.013     Document Type: Article

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