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B.L. Jolliff, M.A. Wieczorek, C.K. Shearer and C.R. Neal. New Views from the Moon.

Chantilly, VA and Washington, D.C. (Mineralogical Society of America and the Geochemical Society), 2006, Reviews in Mineralogy and Geochemistry, volume 60. ISBN 093995072-3. Price US $45 (paperback), $55 (hardback).

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New Views from the Moon is a book that was eagerly awaited by lunar geoscientists and has appeared at a critical time in lunar science. After a flurry of excited activity following the US Apollo and Russian Luna sample return missions in the 1960s and 1970s, there was a period of relative quiescence in lunar science during the 1990s. However, during this time, some important new datasets became available from the Clementine and Lunar Prospector orbital missions. Also, over the last 15 years we have discovered that some meteorites originated on the Moon, and these can provide us with new samples of this celestial body from a wider range of lunar locations than are available from the sample return missions. From these recent missions, we are learning new and exciting facts about the Moon. For . . . [Full Text of this Article]