The Crust of the Moon as Seen by GRAIL

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The distribution and origin of smooth plains on Mercury (2013, neutral): “On these grounds, it was suggested that at least some of the smooth plains on Mercury may have formed as fluidized ejecta 1The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, Maryland, USA.”
The JPL lunar gravity field to spherical harmonic degree 660 from the GRAIL Primary Mission (2013, methodology): “The new lowdegree gravity coefficients also significantly improve the lunar physical librations, which define the body-fixed principal axes of the Moon used for the gravity estimation.”
Water in the Moon's interior: Truth and consequences (2015, background): “…2000; Lognonné et al., 2003; Garcia et al., 2011; Weber et al., 2011), as well as topographic and gravity constraints from the recent GRAIL mission (Wieczorek et al., 2013; Zuber et al., 2013), now place the lunar crustal thickness at 30–40 km, roughly half the thickness of Apollo-era estimates.”
A hydrogen-based oxidation mechanism relevant to planetary formation (2013, neutral): “3 GPa (Wieczorek et al., 2013).”
Gravity and Topography of the Terrestrial Planets (2015, methodology): “The crustal thickness model for the Moon in this figure is an updated version from Wieczorek et al. (2013) that uses gravity data derived from the GRAIL extended mission.”