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Entire topography of lunar surface

ACM SIGGRAPH ASIA 2009 Computer Animation Festival, 2009
The Japanese spacedraft Kaguya (Selene) was launched on 14 September 2007 by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency. Its objectives are "to obtain scientific data of the lunar origin and evolution and to develop the technology for future lunar exploration."
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Lunar surface magnetometers

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics, 1973
Magnetometers have been placed on the moon by astronauts of the Apollo 12, 14, 15, and 16 missions. These instruments have measured permanent fields due to fossil magnetic material in the lunar crust and transient fields due to electrical eddy currents generated in the lunar interior.
P. Dyal, D. Gordon
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Photometry of the lunar surface during lunar eclipses

The moon and the planets, 1980
The photometric observations of the lunar surface during lunar eclipses were carried out on four nights between 1972 to 1978, using the 91 cm reflector of the Dodaira Station of the Tokyo Astronomical Observatory. The photometry was performed in B-, V-, and R-colours, and arranged in accordance with the angular distance from the centre of the Earth's ...
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Thermoluminescence of the lunar surface

The Moon and the Planets, 1982
Observations of the lunar luminescence are reported for a dozen of specific Moon features using the ‘line-depth’ method with a high resolution spectroscopic technique. The data indicate a variation of the Moon proper emission as a function of the phase angle which is interpreted as a proof of the thermoluminescent origin of this emission.
Marie-Lise Chanin   +2 more
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Density of the Lunar Surface

Science, 1968
The evidence that the lunar soil is basaltic permits a closer estimate of its density from the radiothermal and radar data. The mean density at the surface is 0.6 ± 0.2 gram per cubic centimeter, increasing to 1.0 gram per cubic centimeter at a depth of a few centimeters; still higher densities at depths of up to meters are implied by the radar ...
M. J. Campbell, J. Ulrichs, T. Gold
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The Lunar Surface Layer

American Journal of Physics, 1965
ABSTRACT Direct and indirect evidence for the nature of lunar surface materials is examined and compared with theoretical predictions. Conclusions are then drawn concerning the most probable character of these materials. It is concluded that the lunar surface is covered with a layer of rubble of highly variable thickness and block size. The rubble in
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Nature of the Lunar Surface

Nature, 1957
RECENTLY, Gold1 has discussed the origin of the lunar craters and maria. He concurs in the meteorite impact theory of the origin of the craters advocated by Baldwin2, and agrees in major conclusions on the impact of explosions with Gilvarry and Hill3. For strong reasons4, Gold argues against lava as the agent producing the smooth dark surfaces of the ...
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The origin of the lunar surface

Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors, 1974
Abstract A mechanism is described how the lunar landscape could have originated by a chain reaction of volcanic eruptions. The mechanism consists of a sequence of three steps; surface solidification and fragmentation, gas formation and crack-wave interactions.
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The lunar surface layer

Reports on Progress in Physics, 1973
This article describes the application of the concepts and laws of physics to the study of the formation, structure and properties of the surface layers of the moon. Both impact and internal mechanisms for the origin of the lunar surface features are considered.
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Metals on the Lunar Surface

Nature, 1968
IN a recent paper1 written before the flight of Surveyor V, I suggested that metallic iron, aluminium and magnesium may exist on the lunar surface as a result of the chemical reduction of the surface by atomic hydrogen accumulated from long bombardment by solar wind protons.
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