New Moon findings will shine at Fall Meeting

Abstract

NASA's and the Defense Department's darling, the Clementine mission, continues to yield exciting revelations about the Moon—the latest of which will be unveiled at AGU's Fall Meeting in San Francisco, December 5–9. A dozen planetology sessions will focus on the early fruits of Clementine's mapping expedition.Before the Clementine mission, scientists had limited knowledge about the lunar crust and about how it may be compensated. But now they may have some answers. For starters, the internal structure and thermal history of the Moon are more complex than scientists previously believed, according to Maria Zuber of Johns Hopkins University, who will present a new analysis of Clementine data at the meeting.