Production and Saturation of Porosity in the Lunar Highlands from Impact Cratering
The fractured Moon: Production and saturation of porosity in the lunar highlands from impact cratering The MIT Faculty has made this article openly available. Please share how this access benefits you. Your story matters. Citation Soderblom, Jason M., et al. “The Fractured Moon: Production and Saturation of Porosity in the Lunar Highlands from Impact Cratering.” Geophysical Research Letters, vol. 42, no. 17, Sept. 2015, pp. 6939–44. © 2015 American Geophysical Union As Published http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/2015GL065022 Publisher American Geophysical Union (AGU) Version Final published version Citable link http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/118615 Terms of Use Article is made available in accordance with the publisher's policy and may be subject to US copyright law. Please refer to the publisher's site for terms of use. PUBLICATIONS Geophysical Research Letters RESEARCH LETTER The fractured Moon: Production and saturation 10.1002/2015GL065022 of porosity in the lunar highlands Key Points: from impact cratering • The relation between impact-generated porosity and crater size is quantified Jason M. Soderblom1, Alexander J. Evans2, Brandon C. Johnson1, H. Jay Melosh3, Katarina Miljković1,4, • Impacts into highly porous targets 5 6 7 8 3 result in positive gravity anomalies Roger J. Phillips , Jeffrey C. Andrews-Hanna , Carver J. Bierson , James W. Head III , Colleen Milbury , 9 7 1 2,10 11 • The cratering record of the oldest Gregory A. Neumann , Francis Nimmo , David E. Smith , Sean C. Solomon , Michael M. Sori , lunar surfaces is preserved in the
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