Shinsuke Kodama, Yasushi Yamaguchi,
... region (Mare Tranquillitatis, Mare Fecunditatis, Mare Serenitatis, Mare Crisium, Mare Nectaris) to understand the volcanic history of this ... younger in the northern maria, including Serenitatis and Crisium, and older in the southern maria, including Tranquillitatis, Fecunditatis, and Nectaris. According to the relationship between the titanium contents of the mare units and their stratigraphy, the titanium content decreases ... the end of volcanism in the Serenitatis and Crisium region, while it increases with time but finally decreases in the Tranquillitatis and Fecunditatis region. In connection with the distribution of mare basalts, a large amount of high‐Ti mare ...
Tópico(s): Astro and Planetary Science
2003 - Wiley | Meteoritics and Planetary Science
Shoko Oshigami, S. Watanabe, Yasushi Yamaguchi, Atsushi Yamaji, Takao Kobayashi, Atsushi Kumamoto, Ken Ishiyama, Takayuki Ono,
... 8 Ga in the nearside maria including Mare Crisium, Mare Humorum, Mare Imbrium, Mare Nectaris, Mare Serenitatis, Mare ...
Tópico(s): Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
2014 - Wiley | Journal of Geophysical Research Planets
P. Gorenstein, L. Golub, P. Bjorkholm,
... seen at the edges of Mare Fecunditatis, Mare Crisium, Mare Smythii. Mare Tranquillitatis, Mare Nubium, Mare Cognitum, and ...
Tópico(s): Space Science and Extraterrestrial Life
1974 - American Association for the Advancement of Science | Science
... contamination in Mare Nectaris, Mare Fecunditatis, and Mare Crisium. These mare surfaces are proximal to the large craters Theophilus, ... responsible for highland contamination in most of the Mare Crisium surface, and some basalt classification in this mare reflects highland contamination of the spectral properties. MESMA ...
Tópico(s): Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
2003 - American Geophysical Union | Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres
Meng‐Hua Zhu, Jin Chang, Tao Ma, W.-H. Ip, Wenzhe Fa, Jian Wu, MingSheng Cai, YiZhong Gong, YiMing Hu, AoAo Xu, Ze Tang,
... that relatively higher K abundances in the Mare Crisium and Mare Orientale than their surrounding rims were detected for the first time. In light of our observations in these two areas, we propose that Crisium and Orientale basin-forming impact events may have ...
Tópico(s): Isotope Analysis in Ecology
2013 - Nature Portfolio | Scientific Reports
... data are available for the basalts of Mare Crisium and Mare Nubium (Luna 16, 24) and for Very Low ...
Tópico(s): Space Exploration and Technology
2001 - Oxford University Press | Journal of Petrology
P. K. Byrne, Christian Klimczak, P. J. McGovern, E. Mazarico, P. B. James, G. A. Neumann, M. T. Zuber, Sean C. Solomon,
Mare Crisium is composed of a set of volcanic deposits situated in an impact basin on the Moon' ... have not heretofore been recognized on the Moon. Mare Crisium sits above a region of uplifted mantle, which ... and modification shortly after impact. Importantly, numerous other mare-filled mascon basins on the Moon share the same topographic and tectonic characteristics as Crisium, suggesting that they, too, are underlain by deep- ...
Tópico(s): Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
2015 - Elsevier BV | Earth and Planetary Science Letters
Satoshi Matsushima, John R. Zink,
... the umbral region, the observation was centered at Mare Crisium during the course of the eclipse. The decrease ... about 16 mag. The colors of the uneclipsed Mare Crisium area were determined to be B - V = +0. ...
Tópico(s): Infrared Target Detection Methodologies
1964 - Institute of Physics | The Astronomical Journal
... melts, swirls, faults, lineaments and wrinkle ridges. The mare crisium (sea of crisis) is a multi-ring mare ... basalt, gabbroic and anorthositic gabbro rocks from the mare crisium.
Tópico(s): Isotope Analysis in Ecology
2018 - Elsevier BV | Planetary and Space Science
J. B. Adams, J. W. Head, T. B. McCord, C. M. Pieters, Stanley H. Zisk,
... 10‐20 km areas of seven sites in Mare Crisium have been used to calibrate multispectral images of mare units. Based on these data, three major mare units are defined in the Crisium basin and their stratigraphy is interpreted. The oldest mare unit is exposed in the ejecta of the ... concluded that subsidence occurred throughout the emplacement of mare units, including extensive warping and downfaulting of the inner part of the Crisium basin.
Tópico(s): Space Exploration and Technology
1978 - American Geophysical Union | Geophysical Research Letters
Jaroslav Klokočník, Jan Kostelecký, Václav Cı́lek, G. Kletetschka, Aleš Bezděk,
... the time of the existence of lunar dynamo. Mare Crisium analyses show a specific distribution of faulting across ... is likely more than four billion years old. Mare Crisium impact has a unique magnetization signature by impact related transient field. Mare Orientale showed, for the first-time, rippling-like ...
Tópico(s): Space Science and Extraterrestrial Life
2022 - Elsevier BV | Icarus
T. A. Maxwell, R. J. Phillips,
The delineation of spectrally distinct units in Mare Crisium allows a more complete interpretation of the single subsurface interface detected by the Apollo lunar sounder experiment. This interface is approximately 1400 m below the surface in the central mare region of Crisium, and 1000 m below the surface in the ...
Tópico(s): Astro and Planetary Science
1978 - American Geophysical Union | Geophysical Research Letters
Zhiguo Meng, Huamin Wang, Xiang Li, Tao Wang, Zhanchuan Cai, Jinsong Ping, Zhiwei Fu,
Abstract. Mare Crisium is one of the most prominent multi-ring basins on the nearside of the Moon. In this study, the regolith thermophysical features of Mare Crisium are studied with the CELMS data from CE-2 satellite. Several important results are as follows. Firstly, ...
Tópico(s): Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
2018 - Copernicus Publications | The international archives of the photogrammetry, remote sensing and spatial information sciences/International archives of the photogrammetry, remote sensing and spatial information sciences
Soils from the Soviet Luna 24 mission to Mare Crisium contain fragments of ferrobasalt and ferrogabbro. The ferrobasalt ... fragments similar to the ferrobasalt occur in the Crisium soils, and green glasses similar to the Apollo 17 VLT basalt have been found. There is growing evidence that very low Ti basalts may be an abundant mare basalt type; there is a possibility that this ...
Tópico(s): Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
1977 - American Geophysical Union | Geophysical Research Letters
C. M. Pieters, T. B. McCord, J. B. Adams,
The Soviet spacecraft Luna 24 landed in Mare Crisium and returned samples that are expected to be much like the low titanium basalts from Luna 16 and Apollo 12. This conclusion is ... spectral reflectance measurements and multispectral imagery of the Mare Crisium region and uses a background of laboratory measurements ...
Tópico(s): Space Exploration and Technology
1976 - American Geophysical Union | Geophysical Research Letters
S. M. Baek, Khan‐Hyuk Kim, I. Garrick‐Bethell, Ho Jin, Hyo‐Jeong Lee, Jung‐Kyu Lee,
... Low‐altitude Lunar Prospector (LP) magnetometer data for Mare Crisium show two magnetic anomalies near its inner northern ...
Tópico(s): Astro and Planetary Science
2017 - Wiley | Journal of Geophysical Research Planets
... The long period of volcanism suggested for the Mare Crisium was likely due to a combination of geophysical ...
Tópico(s): Space Exploration and Technology
2005 - Elsevier BV | Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta
W. J. Peeples, W.R. Sill, Thomas W. May, S. H. Ward, R. J. Phillips, R. Jordan, Elsa Abbott, Terry J. Killpack,
... distinct alignments in Mare Serenitatis and one in Mare Crisium. It is proposed that these alignments represent subsurface ... of 1.4 km below the surface in Mare Crisium. These reflectors represent basin‐wide subsurface interfaces.
Tópico(s): Space Science and Extraterrestrial Life
1978 - American Geophysical Union | Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres
J. L. Birck, Claude J. Allègre,
Abstract The soil and one gabbroic fragment from Mare Crisium, brought back by the Luna-24 mission, have ...
Tópico(s): Archaeology and ancient environmental studies
1978 - Elsevier BV | Physics of The Earth and Planetary Interiors
A. E. Bence, T. L. Grove, T. A. Scambos,
... basalt and brown glass fragments, crystallized at the Mare Crisium site as a lava flow or intrusive and ...
Tópico(s): Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
1977 - American Geophysical Union | Geophysical Research Letters
L. E. Nyquist, Joseph L. Wooden, C.‐Y. Shih, H. Wiesmann, B. M. Bansal,
... Nd) in this basalt. Aluminous mare basalts from Mare Crisium (Luna 24) and by inference Mare Fecunditatis (Luna 16) occupy locations on the I( ...
Tópico(s): Isotope Analysis in Ecology
1981 - Elsevier BV | Earth and Planetary Science Letters
D. T. Blewett, B. R. Hawke, P. G. Lucey, P. D. Spudis,
... in the Crisium region. Observations were made of Mare Crisium, light plains deposits north of Taruntius crater, and ...
Tópico(s): Geochemistry and Geologic Mapping
1995 - American Geophysical Union | Geophysical Research Letters
Xiaojia Zeng, K. H. Joy, Shijie Li, J. F. Pernet‐Fisher, Xiongyao Li, D. J. P. Martin, Yang Li, Shijie Wang,
... a nearside highlands‐mare boundary (e.g., around Mare Crisium or Orientale) or a cryptomare region (e.g., Schickard‐Schiller or Mare smythii) or a farside highlands‐mare boundary (e. ...
Tópico(s): Isotope Analysis in Ecology
2018 - Wiley | Meteoritics and Planetary Science
... work effectively triple the chronological information available for Mare Crisium and are within the range of radiometric age measurements of Luna 24 mare basalts obtained previously.
Tópico(s): Archaeology and ancient environmental studies
1998 - Wiley | Meteoritics and Planetary Science
Satoshi Matsushima, John R. Zink, James E. Hansen,
... the photoelectric measurements were centered principally on the Mare Crisium region, except for a part of the observations which were made near Mare Frigoris. The maximum decreases in brightness at midtotality, ...
Tópico(s): Atmospheric Ozone and Climate
1966 - Institute of Physics | The Astronomical Journal
... and T > 75 km for Nectaris, Smythii, and Crisium. The distribution of mare ridges and the topographic relief of present mare ...
Tópico(s): High-pressure geophysics and materials
1980 - Wiley | Reviews of Geophysics
M. Grandé, B. J. Kellett, C. Howe, C. H. Perry, B. M. Swinyard, S. K. Dunkin, J. Huovelin, L. Alha, L. d’Uston, S. Maurice, O. Gasnault, S. Couturier-Doux, S. Barabash, K. H. Joy, Ian Crawford, D. J. Lawrence, V. A. Fernandes, I. Casanova, M. A. Wieczorek, N. Thomas, U. Mall, B. Foing, David W. Hughes, H. Alleyne, S. S. Russell, M. M. Grady, R. Lundin, D. M. H. Baker, C. D. Murray, J. E. Guest, Apostolos Christou,
... technique. At the Moon, our initial observations over Mare Crisium show a first unambiguous remote sensing of calcium in the lunar regolith. Data obtained are broadly consistent with current understanding of mare and highland composition. Ground truth is provided by ...
Tópico(s): Isotope Analysis in Ecology
2007 - Elsevier BV | Planetary and Space Science
Albert E. Metzger, Richard Parker,
... intermediate values corresponding to low-Ti basalts, and Mare Crisium is conspicuously low in Ti (0.9%). Regional values in the western maria range from 1.1% to 4.1%, somewhat higher in the north than in the south, with the highest values seen south and west of Aristarchus. The Aristarchus Plateau appears chemically distinct from the surrounding mare. The younger western basalts mapped by the experiment ...
Tópico(s): Spaceflight effects on biology
1979 - Elsevier BV | Earth and Planetary Science Letters
... 17 and in the new Soviet samples from Mare Crisium (LUNA 24). Current studies suggest that the VLT basalts may be in some way related to the enigmatic “green glasses” which are found in the soils from every lunar landing site. Telescopic studies of spectral reflectance and crater systematics show that basalts of varying Ti content were extruded throughout the history of mare volcanism. These new discoveries indicate that mare basalts ...
Tópico(s): Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
1978 - American Geophysical Union | Geophysical Research Letters
Andrew Fearnside, Philip Masding, C. J. Hooker,
... of those areas. Picard and Peirce craters, in Mare Crisium, are shown to contain material of low refractive ...
Tópico(s): Space Science and Extraterrestrial Life
2015 - Elsevier BV | Icarus