It is concluded that lateral conduction might pose a serious obstacle to Watson's experiment unless the permanently shaded area had a radius at least of the order of 100 km, not 1 km as suggested in the article.
Discussion of the Paper by Kenneth Watson, 'Proposed Lunar Heat Flow Measurement from a Polar Orbiting Satellite'
1967
2 pages
Report
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English
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