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Title: The Lunar Swirls
Primary Author: Georgiana Young Kramer
Secondary Author(s): David Blewett, Lon Hood, Jasper Halekas, Sarah Noble, Bernard Ray Hawke, Gunther Kletetschka, Erika Harnett, and Ian Garrick-Bethell
Institution: Bear Fight Center
Date: September 9, 2009
Summary: The lunar swirls are high albedo curvilinear surface features coincident with regions of strong remanent magnetism. Investigating the lunar swirls is important to understand the Earth-Moon system, the interaction of planetary surfaces with the solar wind, and how to best explore our solar system.
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