这张地图和研究首次表明，这些月海脊相对年轻，并且广泛分布在月球月海中。通过确定SMRs的形成方式，研究团队还发现了可能引发月震的新来源，这可能会影响未来月球任务的着陆地点选择。

A small mare ridge in Northeast Mare Imbrium taken by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera. Image Credit: NASA/GSFC/Arizona State University Scientists have produced the first global map and ...

The Solar System remains a unique natural laboratory for exploring the processes that govern planetary formation, evolution and dynamics. Contemporary research continues to refine our understanding of ...

Scientists have produced the first global map and analysis of small mare ridges (SMRs) on the moon, a characteristic geological feature of tectonic activity. Published in The Planetary Science Journal ...

Southwest Research Institute was part of an international team that demonstrated how complex organic molecules (COMs), key ...

Suggested Citation: "2 Study of the History of the Solar System and Its Prebiotic Chemistry: Permanently Shadowed Regions on the Moon." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2020.