Publisher Correction: Mineralogical and chemical properties inversed from 21-lunar-day VNIS observations taken during the Chang'E-4 mission. [PDF]
Zeng Q +7 more
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Vision-Based Decision Support for Rover Path Planning in the Chang’e-4 Mission [PDF]
In planetary rover missions, rover path planning is critical to ensure the safety and efficiency of the rover traverse and in situ explorations. In the Chang’e-4 (CE-4) mission, we have proposed and developed vision-based decision support methods ...
Yexin Wang +9 more
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Geological characteristics of Chang’E-6 landing area in micro-scale unveiled by new observation data [PDF]
Chang’E-6 mission successfully achieved humanity’s first sample return from the farside of the Moon. Here, we report a high-precision terrain dataset with millimeter-to-decimeter spatial resolution around the CE-6 landing site. Based on this dataset, the
Wei Yan +10 more
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A Novel Approach for Permittivity Estimation of Lunar Regolith Using the Lunar Penetrating Radar Onboard Chang’E-4 Rover [PDF]
Accurate relative permittivity is essential to the further analysis of lunar regolith. The traditional hyperbola fitting method for the relative permittivity estimation using the lunar penetrating radar generally ignored the effect of the position and ...
Ruigang Wang +8 more
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Thermophysical properties of the regolith on the lunar far side revealed by the in situ temperature probing of the Chang'E-4 mission. [PDF]
Xiao X +5 more
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The Moon's farside shallow subsurface structure unveiled by Chang'E-4 Lunar Penetrating Radar. [PDF]
Li C +19 more
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Mineralogical and chemical properties inversed from 21-lunar-day VNIS observations taken during the Chang'E-4 mission. [PDF]
Zeng Q +7 more
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Polycyclic aromatics in the Chang’E 5 lunar soils [PDF]
Polycyclic aromatics are ubiquitous in the interstellar medium and meteorites, yet the search for lunar polycyclic aromatics remains a significant challenge. Here, we analyze Chang’E-5 lunar soil samples, revealing polycyclic aromatic concentrations of 5.
Guangcai Zhong +18 more
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Density Structure of the Von Kármán Crater in the Northwestern South Pole-Aitken Basin: Initial Subsurface Interpretation of the Chang’E-4 Landing Site Region [PDF]
The Von Kármán Crater, within the South Pole-Aitken (SPA) Basin, is the landing site of China’s Chang’E-4 mission. To complement the in situ exploration mission and provide initial subsurface interpretation, we applied a 3D density ...
Chikondi Chisenga +4 more
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The Scientific Information Model of Chang'e-4 Visible and Near-IR Imaging Spectrometer (VNIS) and In-Flight Verification. [PDF]
Li C +6 more
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