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Science 26 August 1966:
Vol. 153. no. 3739, pp. 985 - 988
DOI: 10.1126/science.153.3739.985
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Luna 9 Photographs: Evidence for a Fragmental Surface Layer

Donald E. Gault 1, William L. Quaide 1, Verne R. Oberbeck 1, and Henry J. Moore 2

1 Space Sciences Division, NASA, Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, California
2 U.S. Geological Survey, Menlo Park, California

The morphological features of the lunar surface photographed by Luna 9 indicate a surficial layer of weakly cohesive to noncohesive frag mental material. Most of this material is finer than a centimeter and probably finer than a few millimeters, although objects of centimeter size and larger are plentiful.


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