Abundance and Distribution of Iron on the Moon

• Published in: Science
• Main Authors: Lucey, Paul G., Taylor, G. Jeffrey, Malaret, Erick
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) 1995
• Subjects: Aitken; South Pole; South pole
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.268.5214.1150; https://www.science.org/doi/pdf/10.1126/science.268.5214.1150

The abundance and distribution of iron on the moon is derived from a near-global data set from Clementine. The determined iron content of the lunar highlands crust (∼3 percent iron by weight) supports the hypothesis that much of the lunar crust was derived from a magma ocean. The iron content of low...