Geosciences Journal—Special Issue on Recent Advances in Lunar Studies

Geosciences is an interdisciplinary, international, peer-reviewed, open access, monthly journal. Five papers published by Geosciences belong to the Special Issue: Recent Advances in Lunar Studies, co-edited by Nicolle E. B. Zellner (Albion College) and Karen Cahill (Planetary Science Institute), which cover studies related to the Moon's formation, evolution, and exploration. The table of contents is available to everyone as well as full access to the papers, which are listed below.

Dhingra, D. (2019) The New Moon: Major Advances in Lunar Science Enabled by Compositional Remote Sensing from Recent Missions, Geosciences, v. 8(12), 85, doi: 10.3390/geosciences8120498. [view article]

Fernandes, V. A. (2019) Ethical and Social Aspects of a Return to the Moon—A Geological Perspective, Geosciences, v. 9(1), 85, doi: 10.3390/geosciences9010012. [view article]

Hartmann, W. K. (2019) History of the Terminal Cataclysm Paradigm: Epistemology of a Planetary Bombardment That Never (?) Happened, Geosciences, v. 9(7), 285, doi: 10.3390/geosciences9070285. [view article]

Nguyen, P. and Zellner, N. (2019) Using Size and Composition to Assess the Quality of Lunar Impact Glass Ages, Geosciences, v. 9(2), 85, doi: 10.3390/geosciences9020085. [view article]

Wood, C. A. (2019) Scientific Knowledge of the Moon, 1609 to 1969, Geosciences, v. 9(1), 85, doi: 10.3390/geosciences9010005. [view article]

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Written by Linda M. V. Martel, Hawai‘i Institute of Geophysics and Planetology, for PSRD.