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The Moon’s hidden secrets

APR 20, 2009

DOI: 10.1063/PT.5.023264

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Science : The Moon is our closest planetary neighbor and the only extraterrestrial body to which humans have traveled, yet many questions about its origin and early history remain unanswered. Four papers published in this issue by scientific teams of the Japanese SELENE (Kaguya) mission in Science offer a new global view of the Moon that helps to elucidate how the Moon evolved to its present state.
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