An Impactor Origin for Lunar Magnetic Anomalies
Bringing Magnetic Materials to the Moon The Apollo missions to the Moon revealed that portions of the lunar crust are strongly magnetized. Lunar rocks are poor at recording the magnetic field, thus these magnetic anomalies have been difficult to explain. Based on numerical simulations of large-scale...
Published in: | Science |
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Main Authors: | , , |
Format: | Article in Journal/Newspaper |
Language: | English |
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American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
2012
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Online Access: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.1214773 https://www.science.org/doi/pdf/10.1126/science.1214773 |