Spectral variations across Apollo basin on the Moon

• Main Authors: Zambon, F., Carli, C., van der Bogert, C. H., Hiesinger, H., Altieri, F., Giacomini, L., Massironi, M.
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Zenodo 2021
• Subjects: Moon, Apollo Basin; Aitken; Moriarty; South Pole; South pole
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5140440; https://zenodo.org/record/5140440

Studies, e.g. (Ohtake et al., 2014, Moriarty and Pieters, 2018), reveal that the South-Pole Aitken (SPA) basin is unique, particularly because it is the deepest basin on the Moon and might be expected to expose the lunar mantle (Dhingra et al., 2018). The innermost part of SPA is rich in high Ca-pyr...