Gravity field of the moon from the Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) mission

Science

Volumn 339, Issue 6120, 2013, Pages 668-671

  Zuber, Maria T ^a   Smith, David E ^a   Watkins, Michael M ^b   Asmar, Sami W ^b   Konopliv, Alexander S ^b   Lemoine, Frank G ^c   Melosh, H Jay ^d   Neumann, Gregory A ^c   Phillips, Roger J ^e   Solomon, Sean C ^f,g   Wieczorek, Mark A ^h   Williams, James G ^b   Goossens, Sander J ⁱ   Kruizinga, Gerhard ^b   Mazarico, Erwan ^a   Park, Ryan S ^b   Yuan, Dah Ning ^b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^d PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e SOUTHWEST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^f GEOPHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^g Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University   (United States)

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

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRATER; CRUSTAL THICKNESS; GRAVITY ANOMALY; GRAVITY FIELD; HOMOGENEITY; MOON; PRESERVATION; SPACECRAFT; TOPOGRAPHY;

ARTICLE; ASTHENOSPHERIC UPWELLING; GRAVITY; MOON; POROSITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOLAR RADIATION; SPACE FLIGHT; VOLCANO;

EID: 84873524381     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1231507     Document Type: Article

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