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Scientific paper
Dec 2011
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2011agufm.p11i..05z&link_type=abstract
American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2011, abstract #P11I-05
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[5430] Planetary Sciences: Solid Surface Planets / Interiors, [5470] Planetary Sciences: Solid Surface Planets / Surface Materials And Properties, [6250] Planetary Sciences: Solar System Objects / Moon
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The Moon is the most accessible and best studied of the rocky (a.k.a., "terrestrial") bodies beyond Earth. Unlike Earth, however, the Moon's surface geology preserves the record of nearly the entirety of 4.5 billion years of solar system history. The structure and composition of the lunar interior -- and by inference the nature and timing of compositional differentiation and of internal dynamics -- hold the key to reconstructing this history. Longstanding questions such as the origin of the maria, the reason for the nearside-farside asymmetry in crustal thickness, the development and evolution of the magma ocean, and the explanation for the puzzling magnetization of crustal rocks, are being addressed by relating the surface record to interior structure. Recent, ongoing and upcoming observations are providing extraordinary new information to test existing paradigms. For example, detailed morphology of craters and basins is elucidating the role of hypervelocity impact, particularly in early lunar history. Measurements from relative ages from craters counts and resurfacing from ejecta and intrusion is being mapped from orbital spectroscopy and topography are underscore spatial and temporal complexity of surface modification. Advances made for the Moon will also bring understanding of the evolution of not only the Moon itself, but also of the other planets in the solar system.
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