Potassium Map from Chang ' E-2 Constraints the Impact of Crisium and Orientale Basin on the Moon

• Published in: Scientific Reports
• Main Authors: Zhu, Meng-Hua, Chang, Jin, Ma, Tao, Ip, Wing-Huen, Fa, WenZhe, Wu, Jian, Cai, MingSheng, Gong, YiZhong, Hu, YiMing, Xu, AoAo, Tang, ZeSheng
• Other Authors: Zhu, MH (reprint author), Macau Univ Sci & Technol, Space Sci Inst, Taipa, Peoples R China., Macau Univ Sci & Technol, Space Sci Inst, Taipa, Peoples R China., Acad Sinica, Purple Mt Observ, Nanjing 210008, Peoples R China., Natl Cent Univ, Inst Astron, Tao Yuan 32001, Taiwan., Natl Cent Univ, Inst Space Sci, Tao Yuan 32001, Taiwan., Peking Univ, Inst Remote Sensing & Geog Informat Syst, Beijing 100871, Peoples R China.
• Format: Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: scientific reports 2013
• Subjects: GAMMA-RAY SPECTROMETER; SOUTH-POLE AITKEN; LUNAR-SURFACE; PROSPECTOR; ABUNDANCES; EVOLUTION; ERUPTION; OLIVINE; ORIGIN; Aitken; South Pole; South pole
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11897/391765; https://doi.org/10.1038/srep01611

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