Lunar Impact Basins and Crustal Heterogeneity: New Western Limb and Far Side Data from Galileo

• Published in: Science
• Main Authors: Belton, Michael J. S., Head, James W., III, Pieters, Carle M., Greeley, Ronald, McEwen, Alfred S., Neukum, Gerhard, Klaasen, Kenneth P., Anger, Clifford D., Carr, Michael H., Chapman, Clark R., Davies, Merton E., Fanale, Fraser P., Gierasch, Peter J., Greenberg, Richard, Ingersoll, Andrew P., Johnson, Torrence, Paczkowski, Brian, Pilcher, Carl B., Veverka, Joseph
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: American Association for the Advancement of Science 1992
• Subjects: Aitken; South Pole; South pole
• Online Access: https://authors.library.caltech.edu/38434/; https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:20130510-152958369

Multispectral images of the lunar western limb and far side obtained from Galileo reveal the compositional nature of several prominent lunar features and provide new information on lunar evolution. The data reveal that the ejecta from the Orientale impact basin (900 kilometers in diameter) lying out...