The new moon - Scientific results of eighteen years of lunar exploration

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Dec 1977

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1977mercu...6...10b&link_type=abstract

Mercury, vol. 6, Nov.-Dec. 1977, p. 10-17.

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Lunar Exploration, Lunar Surface, Selenology, Geochemistry, Highlands, Lunar Composition, Lunar Core, Lunar Craters, Lunar Maria, Lunar Rocks, Lunar Soil, Mineralogy, Petrology, Structural Basins

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As a result of the analysis of lunar materials, it appears that the basic composition of the moon, although involving the chemical elements believed to be present in the rest of the solar system, differs somewhat not only from the composition of the earth but also from that of chondritic meteorites. Relative to the earth the crust of the moon is short of nitrogen, helium, hydrogen, free oxygen, and compounds of carbon. The crust of the moon is also deficient in metals such as lead, bismuth, zinc, sodium, potassium, cadmium, cesium, and thallium, and the noble metals gold, palladium, and platinum. The oldest materials sampled from the moon are rocks about 4.6 billion years old. The isotropic composition of oxygen in lunar samples suggests that moon and earth formed in the same general zone of the solar system, but that the moon was not necessarily a part of the earth. Attention is given to the material of the highland surfaces, craters, mare basins, mare surfaces, regolith or lunar soil, mineralogy and petrology, and the lunar interior and heat flow from it.

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