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Scientific paper
Feb 2010
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2010psrd.repte.144m&link_type=abstract
Planetary Science Research Discoveries
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Moon, Lunar, Crater, Age, Size-Frequency Distribution, Primary Crater, Secondary Crater, Space Weathering, Selene, Kaguya, Lroc
Scientific paper
High-resolution images acquired in 2008 by the Terrain Camera on board the Japanese lunar orbiting spacecraft SELENE (Kaguya) show numerous small craters on the ejecta blanket of the farside crater Giordano Bruno. The 10 meters/pixel spatial resolution of the images, more than 10 times higher resolution than previous image data of this area, allows unprecedented study of surface details. A team of 12 scientists from the Institute of Space and Astronautical Science at the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), and other research centers in Japan used Terrain Camera data to determine the formation age of Giordano Bruno by the time-honored method of counting the craters on its continuous ejecta. Morota and coauthors estimate that Giordano Bruno is between one to 10 million years old, which argues against the crater's possible formation in medieval time. The SELENE (Kaguya) data has sparked additional interest in the age of this and other young craters determined by the crater-counting method.
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