Mineralogy of the Mafic Anomaly in the South Pole-Aitken Basin: Implications for excavation of the lunar mantle

• Main Authors: Pieters, C. M., Hess, P. C., Head, J. W., Tompkins, S.
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: 1997
• Subjects: Earth Resources and Remote Sensing; Aitken; South Pole; South pole
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/2060/19980018038

Mineralogy of South Pole-Aitken Basin (SPA) (the largest confirmed impact basin on the Moon) is evaluated using five-color images from Clementine. Although olivine-rich material as well as basalts rich in clinopyroxene are readily identified elsewhere on the farside, the dominant rock type observed...