Physics
Scientific paper
Mar 1974
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1974moon....9...31t&link_type=abstract
The Moon, Volume 9, Issue 1-2, pp. 31-42
Physics
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Scientific paper
Seismic data from the Apollo Passive Seismic Network stations are analyzed to determine the velocity structure and to infer the composition and physical properties of the lunar interior. Data from artificial impacts (S-IVB booster and LM ascent stage) cover a distance range of 70 1100 km. Travel times and amplitudes, as well as theoretical seismograms, are used to derive a velocity model for the outer 150 km of the Moon. TheP wave velocity model confirms our earlier report of a lunar crust in the eastern part of Oceanus Procellarum. The crust is about 60 km thick and may consist of two layers in the mare regions. Possible values for theP-wave velocity in the uppermost mantle are between 7.7 km s-1 and 9.0 km s-1. The 9 km s-1 velocity cannot extend below a depth of about 100 km and must decrease below this depth. The elastic properties of the deep interior as inferred from the seismograms of natural events (meteoroid impacts and moonquakes) occurring at great distance indicate that there is an increase in attenuation and a possible decrease of velocity at depths below about 1000 km. This verifies the high temperatures calculated for the deep lunar interior by thermal history models.
Anderson Kenneth R.
Dainty Anton M.
Press Frank
Toksöz Nafi. M.
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