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Quantifying crater production and regolith overturn on the Moon with temporal imaging

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Emerson J. Speyerer, Reinhold Z. Povilaitis, Mark S. Robinson, et al. (2016). Quantifying crater production and regolith overturn on the Moon with temporal imaging. Nature, 538(7624), 215-218. https://doi.org/10.1038/nature19829
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