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Making mountains out of a moon

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The Moon's cratered surface preserves the record of impacts that occurred during the late stages of its accretion. New simulations show that a collision with a companion moon may have formed the lunar farside highlands. See Letter p.69

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Figure 1: The Moon's enigmatic farside highlands.

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  1. Maria T. Zuber is in the Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA.,

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Zuber, M. Making mountains out of a moon. Nature 476, 36–37 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1038/476036a

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