Olivine-rich exposures in the South Pole-Aitken Basin

Icarus

Volumn 218, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 331-344

  Yamamoto, Satoru ^a   Nakamura, Ryosuke ^b   Matsunaga, Tsuneo ^a   Ogawa, Yoshiko ^c   Ishihara, Yoshiaki ^d   Morota, Tomokatsu ^e   Hirata, Naru ^c   Ohtake, Makiko ^f   Hiroi, Takahiro ^g   Yokota, Yasuhiro ^a   Haruyama, Junichi ^f  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AIZU   (Japan)

^d NATIONAL ASTRONOMICAL OBSERVATORY OF JAPAN   (Japan)

^e NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^f JAPAN AEROSPACE EXPLORATION AGENCY   (Japan)

^g BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Impact processes; Moon; Spectroscopy

Indexed keywords

EID: 84863394683     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: 10902643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2011.12.012     Document Type: Article

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