Moon churn

Andrew Mitchinson

Nature, 2016, vol. 538, issue 7624, 177-177

Abstract: Current cratering rates on the Moon Emerson Speyerer and co-authors use 14,092 temporal ('before and after') image pairs obtained by NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter to quantify the contemporary crater-production rate on the Moon. They identify broad reflectance zones associated with the new craters that they interpret as evidence of a surface-bound jetting process, and estimate that this secondary cratering process is churning the top of the regolith much faster than previously thought.

Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1038/538177a

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