Nature Communications (Jun 2020)

Impacts drive lunar rockfalls over billions of years

  • Valentin Tertius Bickel,
  • Jordan Aaron,
  • Andrea Manconi,
  • Simon Loew,
  • Urs Mall

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-16653-3
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 7

Abstract

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In this study, the authors present a global map of rockfalls on the lunar surface and determine impact events as short- and long-term driver for rockfall events.