Gravity field of the Orientale basin from the Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory Mission
The Orientale basin is the youngest and best-preserved major impact structure on the Moon. We used the Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) spacecraft to investigate the gravitational field of Orientale at 3- to 5-kilometer (km) horizontal resolution. A volume of at least (3.4 ± 0.2) × 1...
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| author | Neumann, Gregory A. Goossens, Sander Andrews-Hanna, Jeffrey C. Head, James W. Kiefer, Walter S. Asmar, Sami W. Konopliv, Alexander S. Lemoine, Frank G. Matsuyama, Isamu Melosh, H. Jay McGovern, Patrick J. Nimmo, Francis Phillips, Roger J. Solomon, Sean C. Taylor, G. Jeffrey Watkins, Michael M. Wieczorek, Mark A. Williams, James G. Jansen, Johanna C. Keane, James T. Mazarico, Erwan Park, Ryan S. Yuan, Dah-Ning Zuber, Maria Johnson, Brandon C. Miljkovic, Katarina Soderblom, Jason Smith, David Edmund |
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| author_facet | Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences Neumann, Gregory A. Goossens, Sander Andrews-Hanna, Jeffrey C. Head, James W. Kiefer, Walter S. Asmar, Sami W. Konopliv, Alexander S. Lemoine, Frank G. Matsuyama, Isamu Melosh, H. Jay McGovern, Patrick J. Nimmo, Francis Phillips, Roger J. Solomon, Sean C. Taylor, G. Jeffrey Watkins, Michael M. Wieczorek, Mark A. Williams, James G. Jansen, Johanna C. Keane, James T. Mazarico, Erwan Park, Ryan S. Yuan, Dah-Ning Zuber, Maria Johnson, Brandon C. Miljkovic, Katarina Soderblom, Jason Smith, David Edmund |
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| description | The Orientale basin is the youngest and best-preserved major impact structure on the Moon. We used the Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) spacecraft to investigate the gravitational field of Orientale at 3- to 5-kilometer (km) horizontal resolution. A volume of at least (3.4 ± 0.2) × 10[superscript 6] km[superscript 3] of crustal material was removed and redistributed during basin formation. There is no preserved evidence of the transient crater that would reveal the basin’s maximum volume, but its diameter may now be inferred to be between 320 and 460 km. The gravity field resolves distinctive structures of Orientale’s three rings and suggests the presence of faults associated with the outer two that penetrate to the mantle. The crustal structure of Orientale provides constraints on the formation of multiring basins. |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/1051662024-05-15T07:56:47Z Gravity field of the Orientale basin from the Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory Mission Neumann, Gregory A. Goossens, Sander Andrews-Hanna, Jeffrey C. Head, James W. Kiefer, Walter S. Asmar, Sami W. Konopliv, Alexander S. Lemoine, Frank G. Matsuyama, Isamu Melosh, H. Jay McGovern, Patrick J. Nimmo, Francis Phillips, Roger J. Solomon, Sean C. Taylor, G. Jeffrey Watkins, Michael M. Wieczorek, Mark A. Williams, James G. Jansen, Johanna C. Keane, James T. Mazarico, Erwan Park, Ryan S. Yuan, Dah-Ning Zuber, Maria Johnson, Brandon C. Miljkovic, Katarina Soderblom, Jason Smith, David Edmund Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences Zuber, Maria Zuber, Maria Smith, David E. Johnson, Brandon C. Miljkovic, Katarina Soderblom, Jason The Orientale basin is the youngest and best-preserved major impact structure on the Moon. We used the Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) spacecraft to investigate the gravitational field of Orientale at 3- to 5-kilometer (km) horizontal resolution. A volume of at least (3.4 ± 0.2) × 10[superscript 6] km[superscript 3] of crustal material was removed and redistributed during basin formation. There is no preserved evidence of the transient crater that would reveal the basin’s maximum volume, but its diameter may now be inferred to be between 320 and 460 km. The gravity field resolves distinctive structures of Orientale’s three rings and suggests the presence of faults associated with the outer two that penetrate to the mantle. The crustal structure of Orientale provides constraints on the formation of multiring basins. United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA’s Discovery Program) 2016-11-02T19:13:41Z 2016-11-02T19:13:41Z 2016-10 2016-09 Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle 0036-8075 1095-9203 http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/105166 Zuber, Maria T., David E. Smith, Gregory A. Neumann, Sander Goossens, Jeffrey C. Andrews-Hanna, James W. Head, Walter S. Kiefer, et al. "Gravity Field of the Orientale Basin from the Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory Mission." Science, Vol. 354, Issue 6311 (28 Oct 2016), pp. 438-441. https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2652-8017 en_US http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.aag0519 Science Article is made available in accordance with the publisher's policy and may be subject to US copyright law. Please refer to the publisher's site for terms of use. application/pdf American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Zuber |
| spellingShingle | Neumann, Gregory A. Goossens, Sander Andrews-Hanna, Jeffrey C. Head, James W. Kiefer, Walter S. Asmar, Sami W. Konopliv, Alexander S. Lemoine, Frank G. Matsuyama, Isamu Melosh, H. Jay McGovern, Patrick J. Nimmo, Francis Phillips, Roger J. Solomon, Sean C. Taylor, G. Jeffrey Watkins, Michael M. Wieczorek, Mark A. Williams, James G. Jansen, Johanna C. Keane, James T. Mazarico, Erwan Park, Ryan S. Yuan, Dah-Ning Zuber, Maria Johnson, Brandon C. Miljkovic, Katarina Soderblom, Jason Smith, David Edmund Gravity field of the Orientale basin from the Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory Mission |
| title | Gravity field of the Orientale basin from the Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory Mission |
| title_full | Gravity field of the Orientale basin from the Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory Mission |
| title_fullStr | Gravity field of the Orientale basin from the Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory Mission |
| title_full_unstemmed | Gravity field of the Orientale basin from the Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory Mission |
| title_short | Gravity field of the Orientale basin from the Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory Mission |
| title_sort | gravity field of the orientale basin from the gravity recovery and interior laboratory mission |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/105166 https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2652-8017 |
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