Viscosity of the Moon. I: After Mare Formation

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Jan 1973

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1973moon....6..100a&link_type=abstract

The moon, Volume 6, Issue 1-2, pp. 100-111

Physics

17

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Using data from the present gravitational potential and surface topography of the Moon, it is possible to determine a lower limit of about 5 b.y. for the relaxation time of the mascons. Assuming that the Moon has behaved as a Maxwellian viscoelastic body since the formation of the mascons, this relaxation time indicates a value of about 1027 poise for the viscosity of the lunar interior. Such a high viscosity implies that there has been no convection current inside the upper 800 km of the Moon since the formation of the mascons.

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