Small‐area thorium features on the lunar surface

By D. Lawrence, R. Elphic, W. Feldman, T. Prettyman, O. Gasnault, Sylvestre Maurice. 2003

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“New” lunar meteorites: Implications for composition of the global lunar surface, lunar crust, and the bulk Moon (2005, methodology): “5 (the 0.5 degree translation of Th2002) and Apollo 14 may be a strictly local artifact of the low (5 degree) spatial resolution of Th2002, which is inadequate to resolve the major sub-100 km scale Th variations (Lawrence et al. 2003) near the Apollo 14 site.”
Footprint characteristics revised for field‐scale soil moisture monitoring with cosmic‐ray neutrons (2015, background): “In planetary space science, investigating an instrument’s footprint is of fundamental importance, for instance, to improve the resolution and interpretation of gamma or neutron measurements [Lawrence et al., 2003; Maurice et al., 2004].”
Constraining the size of the South Pole-Aitken basin impact (2010, background): “Lunar Prospector data shows the Fe content here to be lower than the Inner Terrane (6–8 wt.%: Lawrence et al., 2002) but still above the lunar average ( 5 wt.%: Lawrence et al., 2002); Th levels are comparable to the lunar average (61 ppm: Lawrence et al., 2003).”
Improved modeling of Lunar Prospector neutron spectrometer data: Implications for hydrogen deposits at the lunar poles (2006, background): “It is highly unlikely that Gd and/or Sm variations are causing the decreases in epithermal counts that are observed at high lunar latitudes because enhancements of Th are not seen with the LP-GRS data [ Lawrence et al., 2003 ] and it is well known that Th and Gd/Sm track each other in lunar soils [H”