| Autor: |
Pierre Beck, Antoine Pommerol, Alain Herique, Takayuki Ono, Cyril Grima, Jeremie Mouginot, Wlodek Kofman, Takao Kobayashi, Atsushi Kumamoto, J. Audouard |
| Rok vydání: |
2010 |
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| Zdroj: |
Geophysical Research Letters. 37 |
| ISSN: |
0094-8276 |
| DOI: |
10.1029/2009gl041681 |
| Popis: |
[1] The Lunar Radar Sounder (LRS) of the SELENE mission has detected horizontal subsurface features at depths of a few hundreds of meters within all major lunar maria. We have mapped these features at global scale and found a heterogeneous geographical distribution, which correlates negatively with the maps of TiO 2 and FeO obtained from UV-VIS measurements by the Clementine probe. High concentration of ilmenite (FeTiO 3 ) in the basaltic mare lava can explain this correlation, this mineral being a strong absorber for low frequency electromagnetic waves. Thus, absence of detection of subsurface interfaces by LRS on a large portion of lunar maria does not necessarily imply that these interfaces are actually absent. |
| Databáze: |
OpenAIRE |
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