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Life among the Craters

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 September 2017

Harrison H. Schmitt
Harrison H. Schmitt*
Affiliation:
University of Wisconsin–Madison, P.O. Box 90730, Albuquerque, NM 87199, U.S.A.

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The Moon forms one end-member in the planetary mass series Earth-Venus-Mars-Mercury-Asteroids-Moon (Weissman 1999). Having a detailed understanding of the nature and evolution of the two end-members of this series, rather than of just the Earth, has increased the value of other data and inferences by orders of magnitude. As a consequence of obtaining an understanding of the evolution of a second planet, we now can look at other terrestrial planets with far greater insight than ever would have been possible otherwise (Fig. 1).

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Planetary Science
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Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 213: Bioastronomy 2002: Life Among the stars , 2004 , pp. 199 - 202
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Copyright © Astronomical Society of the Pacific 2004 

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