The Moon's Near Side Megabasin and Far Side Bulge

Since Luna and Lunar Orbiter photographed the far side of the Moon, the mysterious dichotomy between the face of the Moon as we see it from Earth and the side of the Moon that is hidden has puzzled lunar scientists. As we learned more from the Apollo sample return missions and later robotic satellit...

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Main Author: Byrne, Charles. (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: Electronic
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
Series:SpringerBriefs in Astronomy,
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505 0 # |a Foreword -- Chapter 1: The asymmetric nature of the Moon differences between the near and far sides -- Chapter 2: Impact dynamics from craters to ringed basins to giant basins -- Chapter 3: A model of large lunar impact cavities and their external ejecta -- Chapter 4: The search for ancient impacts -- Chapter 5: The Near Side Megabasin -- Chapter 6: Age of the Near Side Megabasin -- Chapter 7: The far side megabasin (the South Pole Aitken Basin) -- Chapter 8: A dynamic model of the history of the Moon -- Chapter 9: Implications to the surface mineral distribution and thermal history of the Moon -- Chapter 10: Alternate explanations for the shape of the Moon -- Chapter 11: The need for ground truth of the far side of the Moon -- Chapter 12: Summary -- Index. 
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