To a Rocky Moon - and - The Geologic History of theMoon. - Wilhelms, D. E.

In going back to the Moon there will be discussions as to where you should set up Lunar Outposts. One will have to decide what it is that should be accomplished at each site.

Hopefully the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter will do the job of filling in the details about the geology of the Moon so that we will know what to expect on the ground. http://lroc.sese.asu.edu/index.html

In going to the Moon the first time we needed to know as much as possible too. We didn't know if the Moon was shaped by impact or by volcanoes, or maybe both.

If you want to know what they thought before and after, take a look at the work of Don E. Wilhelms.
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http://www.amazon.com/Rocky-Moon-Geologists-History-Exploration/dp/0816514437

To a Rocky Moon: A Geologist's History of Lunar Exploration (Paperback) by Don E. Wilhelms (Author)
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Do take a look at the web site and book mark it for your use.
- LRK -

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http://www.lpi.usra.edu/lunar_resources/documents.shtml

1987 http://ser.sese.asu.edu/GHM/index.html

The Geologic History of the Moon. Wilhelms, D. E. U. S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 1348, 302 pages. Book out of print.
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http://astrogeology.usgs.gov/About/People/DonWilhelms/
Don E. Wilhelms

Author and Retired USGS Astrogeologist

With his geologic mapping of the Moon, Don Wilhelms set the methods and standards for planetary mapping. He is author of Geologic History of the Moon (1987, USGS Professional Paper 1348) and To a Rocky Moon, A Geologist's History of Lunar Exploration (1993, University of Arizona Press), as well as many other science publications and planetary geologic maps. Don helped train Apollo astronauts and served as a professional expert on news broadcasts in Germany during the Apollo 11 Moon landing. He is an elected fellow of American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Geophysical Union, and Geological Society of America, and was awarded the prestigious Geological Society of America G.K. Gilbert Award in 1988.

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http://www.lpi.usra.edu/lunar_resources/documents.shtml

1987 http://ser.sese.asu.edu/GHM/index.html

The Geologic History of the Moon. Wilhelms, D. E. U. S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 1348, 302 pages. Book out of print.

Geologic History of the Moon, Don Wilhelms US Geological Survey Professional Paper 1348

Since 1987 The Geologic History of the Moon ( D. Wilhelms) has remained the cornerstone reference for all lunar geologists, and was originally published as United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 1348. Unfortunately this volume has long been out of print.

Northwestern University Center for Planetary Sciences has disassembled a copy and scanned each page at a resolution of 200 dpi on a Lanier LD 060 production scanner. The color plates and chapter cover pages were scanned at a higher resolution (300dpi) on a high resolution Agfa flatbed scanner. Production and editing was done using Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Acrobat on a Macintosh G4 laptop computer.

Text searchable versions of the chapters are available below (requires recent versions of pdf readers), file sizes range from 5 to 12 Mbytes. Since the pdfs were created from raster scans of book pages, rather than original text files, the optical character recognition of the text is imperfect, but pretty darn good. The raw scans of the chapters are typically 15-30 Mbytes in size with the largest being 50 Mbytes (Chapter 10).

The pdf containing all the color plates is about 40 Mbytes, a reduced file size version (3 Mbytes) is available here; slight artifacts are visible, but the quality is still good. Full resolution versions of each plate are also available in portable network graphics (PNG) format, and are typically 10 to 20 Mbytes each.

The whole book in a single file is also available. The file is just under a 100 Mbytes in size, and requires Adobe Acrobat version 5.0 or higher, note that it contains the more heavily compressed plates.

The dimensions of the original book are 11 inches by 14.5 inches.

** Note that Chapter 3 was corrected and replaced on July 13 2004, the all in one file was also modified.

Text Searchable Adobe Acrobat Files
[Go there and see the Moon - LRK -]

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http://www.amazon.com/Rocky-Moon-Geologists-History-Exploration/dp/0816514437

To a Rocky Moon: A Geologist's History of Lunar Exploration (Paperback) by Don E. Wilhelms (Author)
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http://www.asi.org/adb/b/01/rockymoon.html

To a Rocky Moon
by Don E. Wilhelms
University of Arizona Press
Paperback, 490 pages
ISBN No. 0-8165-1443-7 (paperback)
ISBN No. 0-8165-1065-2 (hardcover)
List price: $21.50
Amazon link.

TO A ROCKY MOON
A geologist's History of Lunar Exploration

1993

Don Wilhelms is one of the geologists with the US Geological Survey
(USGS) who was there almost from the start of the Apollo program in the early 1960's, joining Gene Shoemaker and the others who got the USGS first interested in lunar and planetary geology in the late 1950's. Wilhelms has authored many works on the geology of the Moon, including the comprehensive Geologic History of the Moon (1987). Much of the geological story of his more formal works is encapsulated in this newer book; even more interesting is the cast of characters Wilhelms features here, telling the scientific and personal story of the period surrounding the Apollo missions, and the many critical discoveries and decisions made by these individuals as they helped define what those first limited steps on our sister planet would tell us.

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WHAT THE MIND CAN CONCEIVE, AND BELIEVE, IT WILL ACHIEVE - LRK

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