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Lunar Hot Spots

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I SUGGEST that the thermal anomalies found recently in infra-red lunar observations1,2 could be due to lunar roughness on a centimetre scale rather than due to changes in the thermal composition of lunar rock or localized thermal sources. The idea of roughness of centimetre dimensions3 has now been directly verified by radar reflexion measurements. In fact, some protagonists of the dust hypothesis now incorporate this type of roughness in their models of the lunar crust.

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BASTIN, J. Lunar Hot Spots. Nature 207, 1381–1382 (1965). https://doi.org/10.1038/2071381b0

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