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The Lunar Swirls
Panel Selection:
Inner Planets: Mercury, Venus, and the Moon.
Institution:
Bear Fight Center
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.