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Surface and Near-Surface Thermal Environment of the Moon

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Sefton-Nash, E. (2014). Surface and Near-Surface Thermal Environment of the Moon. In: Cudnik, B. (eds) Encyclopedia of Lunar Science. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-05546-6_14-1

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