Fig. 1. Maps of the lunar nearside (left) and farside (right) showing the spatial distribution of mare basalts (dark gray areas, based on Nelson et al. [27]). Basemap is a colorized Lunar Orbiter Laser Altimeter (LOLA) topography overlain on LOLA hillshad (IMAGE)

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Fig. 1. Maps of the lunar nearside (left) and farside (right) showing the spatial distribution of mare basalts (dark gray areas, based on Nelson et al. [27]). Basemap is a colorized Lunar Orbiter Laser Altimeter (LOLA) topography overlain on LOLA hillshad

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Fig. 1. Maps of the lunar nearside (left) and farside (right) showing the spatial distribution of mare basalts (dark gray areas, based on Nelson et al. [27]). Basemap is a colorized Lunar Orbiter Laser Altimeter (LOLA) topography overlain on LOLA hillshade, and the blue circles indicate impact basins >300 km in diameter (based on Head et al. [150]).

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