Tycho Crater: a Potential Landing Site to Study a Diversity of Regolith Processes and Space Weathering
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PROCESSES AND SPACE WEATHERING. A. Przepiórka 1 , S. Crites 2 , S. Quintana 3 , C. Santiago 4 , T. Trabucchi 5 , D. A. Kring 6 ; 1 Space Research Centre of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland, [email protected]; 2 University of Hawai’i, Honolulu, HI; 3 Brown University, Providence, RI; 4 University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, TX; 5 University of New Brunswick, New Brunswick, Canada; 6 Lunar and Planetary Institute, Houston, TX.
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تاریخ انتشار 2012