Beyond the Earth, the Moon is the only planetary body for which we have samples from known locations. The analysis of these samples gives us “ground-truth” for numerous remote …
Cryptomaria, lunar volcanic deposits obscured by crater and basin impact ejecta, can provide important information about the thermal and volcanic history of the Moon. The timing …
The origin and evolution of the Moon remain controversial,, with one of the most important questions for lunar evolution being the timing and duration of basaltic (mare) magmatism …
K Izquierdo, MM Sori, B Checketts… - Journal of …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The present‐day distribution of mare basalts on the Moon is an important constraint on the timing, duration, and flux of volcanism on the Moon. In this work, we find the global …
Kalahari 008 and 009 are two lunar meteorites that were found close to each other in Botswana. Kalahari 008 is a typical lunar anorthositic breccia; Kalahari 009 a monomict …
T Tang, Z Meng, Y Lian, Z Xiao, J Ping, Z Cai, X Zhang… - Remote Sensing, 2022 - mdpi.com
Lunar cryptomare records both early-stage mare volcanisms and large-scale impact cratering, which can provide important information about the thermal evolution of the Moon …
J Whitten, JW Head - Planetary and Space Science, 2015 - Elsevier
Ancient lunar volcanic deposits, known as cryptomaria, have been detected by remote telescopic and orbital measurements since the 1970s. Cryptomaria are most easily identified …
High-resolution hyperspectral data from Chandrayaan-1's Moon Mineralogy Mapper (M 3) allow detection of olivine on the lunar surface. Olivine exposed at the surface may originate …
T Arai, BR Hawke, TA Giguere, K Misawa… - … et Cosmochimica Acta, 2010 - Elsevier
The Antarctic lunar meteorite Meteorite Hills (MET) 01210 is a polymict regolith breccia, dominantly composed of mare basalt components. One relatively large (2.7× 4.7 mm) basalt …