Local lunar gravity field analysis over the South Pole-Aitken basin from SELENE farside tracking data

Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets

Volumn 117, Issue 2, 2012, Pages

  Goossens, Sander ^a,b,c   Ishihara, Yoshiaki ^a   Matsumoto, Koji ^a   Sasaki, Sho ^a  

^a NATIONAL ASTRONOMICAL OBSERVATORY OF JAPAN   (Japan)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE COUNTY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUGUER ANOMALY; CORRELATION; CRATER; GRAVITY FIELD; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; IMAGE RESOLUTION; LUNAR PHASE; MOHO; MOON; TOPOGRAPHIC MAPPING; TRACKING;

ANTARCTICA; EAST ANTARCTICA; SOUTH POLE;

EID: 84857097642     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011JE003831     Document Type: Article

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