Related Content Search Google Scholar for: | Performing your original = search,=20 color coded moon map, in Science will retrieve 26=20 results. | Science 16 December = 1994: Vol. 266.=20 no. 5192, pp. 1848 - 1851 DOI:=20 10.1126/science.266.5192.1848 | | Articles Ancient Multiring Basins on the Moon Revealed by=20 Clementine Laser Altimetry Paul D. Spudis=20 1, Jeffrey J. Gillis 1, = and=20 Robert A. Reisse 2 1 Lunar and Planetary Institute, = 3600 Bay Area=20 Boulevard, Houston, TX 77058, USA. 2 Science = Inquiries, 312=20 Patleigh Road, Catonsville, MD 21228, USA.
Analysis of laser altimetry data from Clementine has = confirmed=20 and extended our knowledge of nearly obliterated multiring=20 basins on the moon. These basins were = formed=20 during the early bombardment phase of lunar history, = have been=20 filled to varying degrees by mare lavas and regional = ejecta=20 blankets, and have been degraded by the superposition = of large=20 impact craters. The Mendel-Rydberg Basin, a degraded = three-ring=20 feature over 600 kilometers in diameter on the lunar = western=20 limb, is about 6 kilometers deep from rim to floor, = only=20 slightly less deep than the nearby younger and much = better=20 preserved Orientale Basin (8 kilometers deep). The = South=20 Pole=97Aitken Basin, the oldest discernible impact = feature on the=20 moon, is revealed as a basin 2500 kilometers = in=20 diameter with an average depth of more than 13 kilometers, = rim=20 crest to floor. This feature is the largest, deepest impact=20 crater yet discovered in the solar system. Several = additional=20 depressions seen in the data may represent previously=20 unmapped ancient impact=20 basins. Submitted on August 2,=20 1994 Accepted on October 25, = 1994 THIS ARTICLE HAS BEEN CITED BY OTHER ARTICLES: - New Views of Lunar Geoscience: An Introduction and Overview. =
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