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GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS
卷 43, 期 6, 页码 2445-2455出版社
AMER GEOPHYSICAL UNION
DOI: 10.1002/2015GL067394
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GRAIL; Moon; lunar; buried; crater; maria
Gravity observations from the dual Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) spacecraft have revealed more than 100 quasi-circular mass anomalies, 26-300km in diameter, on the lunar nearside. These anomalies are interpreted to be impact craters filled primarily by mare deposits, and their characteristics are consistent with those of impact structures that formed prior to, and during, intervals of flooding of feldspathic terrane by mare basalt lavas. We determine that mare deposits have an average density contrast of 850(-200)(+300)kgm(-3) relative to the surrounding crust. The presence of a large population of volcanically buried craters with minimal topographic expression and diameters up to 300km requires an average nearside mare thickness of at least 1.5km and local lenses of mare basalt as thick as similar to 7km.
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