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The Moon's Near Side Megabasin and Far Side Bulge

By Charles Byrne (auth.)

Book information

Publisher
Springer-Verlag New York
Year
2013
ISBN
978-1-4614-6948-3, 978-1-4614-6949-0
DOI
10.1007/978-1-4614-6949-0
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
6 MB (6011560 bytes)
Series
SpringerBriefs in Astronomy
Edition
1
Pages
125\132
Topic
Physics Astronomy
Orientation
yes
Scanned
yes
Time added
2013-10-21 03:35:48
Extraterrestrial PhysicsSpace Sciences; Planetology; Mineralogy

Description

Since Luna and Lunar Orbiter photographed the far side of the Moon, the mysterious dichotomy between the face of the Moon as we see it from Earth and the side of the Moon that is hidden has puzzled lunar scientists. As we learned more from the Apollo sample return missions and later robotic satellites, the puzzle literally deepened, showing asymmetry of the crust and mantle, all the way to the core of the Moon. This book summarizes the author’s successful search for an ancient impact feature, the Near Side Megabasin of the Moon and the extensions to impact theory needed to find it. The implications of this ancient event are developed to answer many of the questions about the history of the Moon.

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