Impact melt in small lunar highland craters

Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets

Volumn 117, Issue 3, 2012, Pages

  Plescia, J B ^a   Cintala, M J ^b  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY APPLIED PHYSICS LABORATORY   (United States)

^b NASA JOHNSON SPACE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMPACT STRUCTURE; LUNAR CRUST; LUNAR SOIL; MELT; MOON; NUMERICAL MODEL; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD;

EID: 84859125345     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011JE003941     Document Type: Article

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