Formation of South Pole-Aitken Basin as the Result of an Oblique Impact: Implications for Melt Volume and Source of Exposed Materials

• Main Author: Petro, N. E.
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2012
• Subjects: Lunar and Planetary Science and Exploration; South Pole; Aitken; South pole
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/2060/20120012900

The South Pole-Aitken Basin (SPA) is the largest, deepest, and oldest identified basin on the Moon and contains surfaces that are unique due to their age, composition, and depth of origin in the lunar crust [1-3] (Figure 1). SPA has been a target of interest as an area for robotic sample return in o...