Crustal heterogeneity of the moon viewed from the Galileo SSI camera: Lunar sample calibrations and compositional implications

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Jun 1991

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1991pggp.rept..218p&link_type=abstract

In NASA, Washington, Reports of Planetary Geology and Geophysics Program, 1990 p 218-219 (SEE N92-10728 01-91)

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Geophysics

Calibrating, Color, Crusts, Deposits, Lunar Crust, Lunar Far Side, Lunar Geology, Lunar Rocks, Moon, Multispectral Photography, Spectrum Analysis, Composition (Property), Craters, Galileo Spacecraft, Heterogeneity, Hypotheses, Igneous Rocks, Magma, Planetary Evolution, Stratigraphy

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Summaries are given of the spectral calibration, compositional parameters, nearside color, and limb and farside color of the Moon. The farside of the Moon, a large area of lunar crust, is dominated by heavily cratered terrain and basin deposits that represent the products of the first half billion years of crustal evolution. Continuing analysis of the returned lunar samples suggest a magma ocean and/or serial magmatism model for evolution of the primordial lunar crust. However, testing either hypothesis requires compositional information about the crustal stratigraphy and lateral heterogeneity. Resolution of this important planetary science issue is dependent on additional data. New Galileo multispectral images indicate previously unknown local and regional compositional diversity of the farside crust. Future analysis will focus on individual features and a more detailed assessment of crustal stratigraphy and heterogeneity.

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