Global survey of lunar regolith depths from LROC images

Icarus

Volumn 215, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 485-490

  Bart, Gwendolyn D ^a   Nickerson, Ryan D ^a   Lawder, Matthew T ^b   Melosh, H J ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO   (United States)

^b BUTLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cratering; Impact processes; Moon, surface; Regoliths

Indexed keywords

EID: 80052544992     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: 10902643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2011.07.017     Document Type: Article

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