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Science 26 September 1969:
Vol. 165. no. 3900, pp. 1345 - 1349
DOI: 10.1126/science.165.3900.1345
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Apollo 11 Observations of a Remarkable Glazing Phenomenon on the Lunar Surface

T. Gold 1

1 Cornell-Sydney University Astronomy Center, Space Sciences Building, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York

Some glazing is apparently due to radiation heating; it suggests a giant solar outburst in geologically recent times.


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