Rugged crater ejecta as a guide to megaregolith thickness in the southern nearside of the Moon

• Published in: Geology
• Main Authors: Thompson, Thomas W., Campbell, Bruce A., Ghent, Rebecca R., Hawke, B. Ray
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2009
• Subjects: Aitken; South Pole; South pole
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10088/16533; https://doi.org/10.1130/G25565A.1

The southern highlands of the Moon comprise superposed ejecta layers, individually as thick as a few kilometers, from the major basins. Smaller (1-16-km-diameter) impact craters that penetrate this layered megaregolith and excavate material from depth have radar properties that provide insight into...