Regolith thickness over the lunar nearside: Results from Earth-based 70-cm Arecibo radar observations

Icarus

Volumn 218, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 771-787

  Fa, Wenzhe ^a   Wieczorek, Mark A ^a  

^a INSTITUT DE PHYSIQUE DU GLOBE DE PARIS   (France)

Author keywords

Moon, surface; Radar observations; Regoliths

Indexed keywords

EID: 84857770416     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: 10902643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2012.01.010     Document Type: Article

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