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Astrogeology laboratories

OCT 01, 1964
Physics Today

A facility is being constructed at Flagstaff, Arizona, whose primary purpose will be basic lunar research and lunar geologic mapping. Research projects planned include infrared emission of the moon, lunar photometry, lunar terrain analysis, and micro‐topography of the moon. The geologic analysis of the moon will result in the mapping of roughly nine million square miles of lunar surface.

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