Moon is the best witness to early Solar System history

摘要

Nature usually recognizes emerging areas of scientific importance and adheres to high scientific and journalistic standards, so you are probably embarrassed by your amateurish and out-of-touch Editorial 'Because it's there' (Nature 450,2; 2007). You remark "Although there are interesting scientific questions about the Moon, few, if any, are of the first order." This insults planetary scientists who have been working hard to understand the early history of our Solar System.