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Gravity Field of the Orientale Basin from the Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory MissionThe Orientale basin is the youngest and best-preserved major impact structure on the Moon. We used the Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) spacecraft to investigate the gravitational field of Orientale at 3- to 5-kilometer (km) horizontal resolution. A volume of at least (3.4 +/- 0.2) × 10(exp 6) cu km of crustal material was removed and redistributed during basin formation. There is no preserved evidence of the transient crater that would reveal the basin's maximum volume, but its diameter may now be inferred to be between 320 and 460 km. The gravity field resolves distinctive structures of Orientale's three rings and suggests the presence of faults associated with the outer two that penetrate to the mantle. The crustal structure of Orientale provides constraints on the formation of multiring basins.
Document ID
20170002335
Acquisition Source
Goddard Space Flight Center
Document Type
Reprint (Version printed in journal)
External Source(s)
Authors
Zuber, Maria T.
(Massachusetts Inst. of Tech. Cambridge, MA, United States)
Smith, David E.
(Massachusetts Inst. of Tech. Cambridge, MA, United States)
Neumann, Gregory A.
(NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Greenbelt, MD, United States)
Goossens, Sander
(Maryland Univ. Baltimore County Baltimore, MD, United States)
Andrews-Hanna, Jeffrey C.
(Colorado School of Mines Golden, CO, United States)
Head, James W.
(Brown Univ. Providence, RI, United States)
Kiefer, Walter S.
(Lunar and Planetary Inst. Houston, TX, United States)
Asmar, Sami W.
(Jet Propulsion Lab., California Inst. of Tech. Pasadena, CA, United States)
Konopliv, Alexander S.
(Jet Propulsion Lab., California Inst. of Tech. Pasadena, CA, United States)
Lemoine, Frank G.
(NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Greenbelt, MD, United States)
Matsuyama, Isamu
(Arizona Univ. Tucson, AZ, United States)
Melosh, H. Jay
(Purdue Univ. West Lafayette, IN, United States)
McGovern, Patrick J.
(Lunar and Planetary Inst. Houston, TX, United States)
Nimmo, Francis
(California Univ. Santa Cruz, CA, United States)
Phillips, Roger J.
(Southwest Research Inst. Boulder, CO, United States)
Solomon, Sean C.
(Carnegie Institution of Washington Washington, DC, United States)
Taylor, G. Jeffrey
(Hawaii Univ. Honolulu, HI, United States)
Watkins, Michael M.
(Jet Propulsion Lab., California Inst. of Tech. Pasadena, CA, United States)
Wieczorek, Mark A.
(Universite Paris Diderot Paris, France)
Williams, James G.
(Jet Propulsion Lab., California Inst. of Tech. Pasadena, CA, United States)
Jansen, Johanna C.
(Colorado School of Mines Golden, CO, United States)
Johnson, Brandon C.
(Massachusetts Inst. of Tech. Cambridge, MA, United States)
Keane, James T.
(Lunar and Planetary Inst. Houston, TX, United States)
Mazarico, Erwan
(NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Greenbelt, MD, United States)
Miljkovic, Katarina
(Massachusetts Inst. of Tech. Cambridge, MA, United States)
Park, Ryan S.
(Jet Propulsion Lab., California Inst. of Tech. Pasadena, CA, United States)
Soderblom, Jason M.
(Massachusetts Inst. of Tech. Cambridge, MA, United States)
Yuan, Dah-Ning
(Jet Propulsion Lab., California Inst. of Tech. Pasadena, CA, United States)
Date Acquired
March 17, 2017
Publication Date
October 28, 2016
Publication Information
Publication: Science
Publisher: Science
Volume: 354
Issue: 6311
ISSN: 0036-8075
e-ISSN: 1095-9203
Subject Category
Lunar And Planetary Science And Exploration
Report/Patent Number
GSFC-E-DAA-TN40014
Funding Number(s)
CONTRACT_GRANT: NNA14AB01A
CONTRACT_GRANT: NNG06EO90A
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