Methods, Results, and Future Directions
The methods used to complete the model of the Moon’s large scale features are reviewed with a concise statement of the results. In the course of this work, new tools were used to model the large features of the Moon. The history of the Moon was investigat
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Charles J. Byrne
The Moon’s Near Side Megabasin and Far Side Bulge
SpringerBriefs in Astronomy
Series Editors Martin Ratcliffe Michael Inglis Wolfgang Hillebrandt
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Charles J. Byrne
The Moon’s Near Side Megabasin and Far Side Bulge
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Charles J. Byrne Middletown NJ USA
ISSN 2191-9100 ISSN 2191-9119 (electronic) ISBN 978-1-4614-6949-0 (eBook) ISBN 978-1-4614-6948-3 DOI 10.1007/978-1-4614-6949-0 Springer New York Heidelberg Dordrecht London
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Preface
In our human history, we have perceived the Moon in different ways. Early astronomers saw the Moon as a sphere, the only object in the sky except the sun that was clearly not a point. Different cultures identified the patterns of light and dark in diverse ways, such as a man in the Moon and a rabbit. Now, we call the dark areas maria, comparing them to Earth’s seas. Shortly after the invention of telescopes, Galileo Galilei and others turned them to the Moon and saw that it was not a perfect sphere but was heavily cratered. With or without instruments, we here on Earth see only the near side of the Moon: the far side is known to us on
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