Basin and Crater Ejecta Contributions to the South Pole-Aitken Basin (SPA) Regolith; Positive Implications for Robotic Surface Samples

• Main Authors: Petro, Noah E., Jolliff, B. L.
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2011
• Subjects: Lunar and Planetary Science and Exploration; South Pole; Aitken; Bellinsgauzen; South pole
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/2060/20120011796

The ability of impacts of all sizes to laterally transport ejected material across the lunar surface is well-documented both in lunar samples [1-4] and in remote sensing data [5-7]. The need to quantify the amount of lateral transport has lead to several models to estimate the scale of this effect....