Differences in the Mega-regolith Depth across the Moon’s Southern Highlands
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HIGHLANDS. Thomas. W. Thompson, Bruce A. Campbell, Rebecca R. Ghent, and B. Ray Hawke Jet Propulsion Laboratory, 4800 Oak Grove Drive, Pasadena, 91109, CA, USA, Ph: 818-354-3881, Fax: 818-3935285, [email protected]; Center for Earth and Planetary Studies, Smithsonian Inst., MRC 315, Washington, D.C 20013, Dept. of Geology, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada, M5S 3B1 Hawaii Inst. of Geophysics and Planetology, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI 96822.
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