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Lunar swirls created by comets?, Whispy bright region on Earth's moon, remants of comet collisions.
TheAnt
post Jun 11 2015, 03:32 PM
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This piece is not about any specific mission, even though the swirls have been imagined by orbiters.
I might be relevant since it could give an insight for some various features we discuss on this forum.
Crashing comets may explain mysterious lunar swirls
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post Jun 12 2015, 09:18 PM
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QUOTE (TheAnt @ Jun 11 2015, 04:32 PM) *
This piece is not about any specific mission, even though the swirls have been imagined by orbiters.
I might be relevant since it could give an insight for some various features we discuss on this forum.
Crashing comets may explain mysterious lunar swirls


I blogged on this a litte while ago. I can't say my research was PhD level exhaustive (writing the blog is just a hobby) but these patterns seem to be fairly well accepted. Some of the images and the correlaton between the discoloured areas and the local magnetic fields are quite interesting.


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- TheAnt   Lunar swirls created by comets?   Jun 11 2015, 03:32 PM
- - ZLD   I'm out of the loop as far as these types of s...   Jun 11 2015, 05:40 PM
- - marsbug   QUOTE (TheAnt @ Jun 11 2015, 04:32 PM) Th...   Jun 12 2015, 09:18 PM
- - dvandorn   Yeah -- I just can't see comets producing the ...   Jun 13 2015, 01:10 AM
- - TheAnt   @marsbug: Oh you even wrote a blog about them, Im...   Jun 13 2015, 07:51 AM
- - marsbug   Ah, i thought you were unconvinced that the swirls...   Jun 13 2015, 11:18 AM
|- - TheAnt   Oh I have no doubt that they're real features,...   Jun 13 2015, 01:47 PM
- - dvandorn   The explanation I have read is that localized magn...   Jun 13 2015, 06:24 PM

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