Lunar true polar wander inferred from polar hydrogen

M. A. Siegler (), R. S. Miller, J. T. Keane, M. Laneuville, D. A. Paige, I. Matsuyama, D. J. Lawrence, A. Crotts and M. J. Poston
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M. A. Siegler: Planetary Science Institute
R. S. Miller: University of Alabama in Huntsville
J. T. Keane: Lunar and Planetary Laboratory, University of Arizona
M. Laneuville: Earth Life Sciences Institute, Tokyo Institute of Technology
D. A. Paige: University of California, Los Angeles
I. Matsuyama: Lunar and Planetary Laboratory, University of Arizona
D. J. Lawrence: The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory
A. Crotts: Columbia University
M. J. Poston: California Institute of Technology

Nature, 2016, vol. 531, issue 7595, 480-484

Abstract: Polar hydrogen deposits on the Moon provide evidence that its spin axis has shifted; analysis of the locations of these deposits and of the lunar figure suggests that the shift occurred as a result of changes in the Moon’s moments of inertia caused by a low-density thermal anomaly beneath the Procellarum region.

Date: 2016
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