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lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
5916
pubmed:dateCreated
2009-2-13
pubmed:abstractText
A global lunar topographic map with a spatial resolution of finer than 0.5 degree has been derived using data from the laser altimeter (LALT) on board the Japanese lunar explorer Selenological and Engineering Explorer (SELENE or Kaguya). In comparison with the previous Unified Lunar Control Network (ULCN 2005) model, the new map reveals unbiased lunar topography for scales finer than a few hundred kilometers. Spherical harmonic analysis of global topographic data for the Moon, Earth, Mars, and Venus suggests that isostatic compensation is the prevailing lithospheric support mechanism at large scales. However, simple rigid support is suggested to dominate for the Moon, Venus, and Mars for smaller scales, which may indicate a drier lithosphere than on Earth, especially for the Moon and Venus.
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pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:status
PubMed-not-MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Feb
pubmed:issn
1095-9203
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Electronic
pubmed:day
13
pubmed:volume
323
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
897-900
pubmed:year
2009
pubmed:articleTitle
Lunar global shape and polar topography derived from Kaguya-LALT laser altimetry.
pubmed:affiliation
National Astronomical Observatory of Japan, 2-21-1 Osawa, Mitaka, Tokyo 181-8588, Japan. arakih@miz.nao.ac.jp
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article