A series of models of the lunar interior are derived from topographic, gravitational, librational, and seismic data. The librational parameters and low-degree gravity harmonics result primarily from surface height variations and only secondarily from lateral density variations. The moon departs from isostasy, even-for the low-degree harmonics, with a maximum superisostatic stress of 200 bars un...

In this paper, making use of the method developed by Catlin, we study the L-estimate for the ∂̄-equation on a lunar manifold with the mixed boundary conditions.

It remains unlikely that any government or group of governments will make the long-term funding commitments necessary to return to the Moon in support of scientific goals or resource production. If a lunar base is to be established within the foreseeable future, it will support commercial production and use of unique energy resources. Business plan development for commercial production and use ...

The distribution of elevations on the moon determined by Clementine deviates strongly from a normal distribution, suggesting that several geologic processes have influenced the topography. The hypsograms for the near side and far side of the moon are distinctly different, and these differences correlate with differences in composition as determined by Apollo orbital geochemistry, Clementine glo...

This study monitored the endogenous emergence time of the fiddler crab Uca lactea annulipes (Milne-Edwards, 1837) in the field, for the first time, at an intertidal shore in Kuwait, from 1997 to 2001. The results revealed a significant cyclic change in the median emergence time as the season progressed from winter, through spring and summer, to autumn (.44, 1.29, 3.12, and 1.1 h prior to the de...

a Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon, University de Lyon 1, CNRS, Lyon, France Department of Earth Science, Rice University, Houston, TX 77005, USA c Steinmann Institut, Universität Bonn, 53115 Bonn, Germany Centre de Recherches Petrographiques et Géochimiques, CNRS, Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Géologie, 54501 Vandoeuvre-les-Nancy, France Washington University, St. Louis, MO 63130, USA Departme...

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