Thickness of proximal ejecta from the Orientale Basin from Lunar Orbiter Laser Altimeter (LOLA) data: Implications for multi-ring basin formation

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 38, Issue 17, 2011, Pages

  Fassett, Caleb I ^a   Head, James W ^a   Smith, David E ^b,c   Zuber, Maria T ^b   Neumann, Gregory A ^c  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANEROID ALTIMETERS; LANDFORMS; METEOROLOGICAL INSTRUMENTS; RADIO ALTIMETERS;

BASIN FORMATION; DECAY MODEL; IMPACT BASINS; LASER ALTIMETER; LUNAR ORBITER; MULTIRING; TRANSIENT CAVITIES;

MOON;

ALTIMETER; BASIN; CORDILLERA; DEPTH DETERMINATION; DIAMETER; EJECTA; IMPACT STRUCTURE; LASER METHOD; LUNAR MANTLE; SAMPLING; SATELLITE ALTIMETRY; SATELLITE DATA; TOPOGRAPHY;

EID: 80052473321     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011GL048502     Document Type: Article

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