Moon: Two New Mascon Basins
Abstract
Lunar gravity data and orbital photography indicate that there is a mascon basin approximately 1000 kilometers in diameter on the farside of the moon and that Mare Marginis is the flooded fraction of a mascon basin approximately 900 kilometers in diameter.
- Publication:
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Science
- Pub Date:
- June 1969
- DOI:
- 10.1126/science.164.3885.1273
- Bibcode:
- 1969Sci...164.1273C