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Enhancing the vertical resolution of lunar penetrating radar data using predictive deconvolution

Earth and Planetary Physics
The Yutu-2 rover onboard the Chang’E-4 mission performed the first lunar penetrating radar detection on the farside of the Moon. The high-frequency channel presented us with many unprecedented details of the subsurface structures within a depth of ...
Chao Li, JinHai Zhang
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HIGH PRECISION DTM AND DOM GENERATING USING MULTI-SOURCE ORBITAL DATA ON CHANG’E-4 LANDING SITE [PDF]

The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, 2019
Chang’e-4 (CE-4) has successfully soft landed in Von Kármán crater inside the South Pole-Aitken (SPA) basin at 10:26 am on January 3, 2019. High precision landing site mapping plays an essential role in mission operations and science applications before ...
B. Liu, S. Niu, X. Xin, M. Jia, K. Di, Z. Liu, M. Peng, Z. Yue   +7 more
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An updated constraint on the local stratigraphy at the Chang'E-4 landing site

Earth and Planetary Physics, 2021
The Chang’E-4 mission has been exploring the lunar farside. Two scientific targets of the rover onboard are (1) resolving the possible mineralogy related to the South Pole-Aitken basin and (2) understanding the subsurface processes at the lunar farside ...
YiRen Chang, ZhiYong Xiao, YiChen Wang, ChunYu Ding, Jun Cui, YuZhen Cai   +5 more
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Dielectric Properties of Lunar Materials at the Chang’e-4 Landing Site

Remote Sensing, 2021
On January 3rd 2019, the Chang’e-4 mission successfully landed in the Von Kármán Crater inside the South Pole-Aitken (SPA) basin and achieved the first soft landing on the farside of the Moon.
Jialong Lai, Feifei Cui, Yi Xu, Chaofei Liu, Ling Zhang   +4 more
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Rock Location and Property Analysis of Lunar Regolith at Chang’E-4 Landing Site Based on Local Correlation and Semblance Analysis

Remote Sensing, 2020
The Lunar Penetrating Radar (LPR) onboard the Yutu-2 rover from China’s Chang’E-4 (CE-4) mission is used to probe the subsurface structure and the near-surface stratigraphic structure of the lunar regolith on the farside of the Moon.
Hanjie Song, Chao Li, Jinhai Zhang, Xing Wu, Yang Liu, Yongliao Zou   +5 more
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Spatial heterogeneity in the radiogenic activity of the lunar interior: Inferences from CHACE and LLRI on Chandrayaan-1

, 2012
In the past, clues on the potential radiogenic activity of the lunar interior have been obtained from the isotopic composition of noble gases like Argon.
Ahmed, S. M., Bhardwaj, Anil, Das, Tirtha Pratim, Kamalakar, J. A., Sridharan, R., Supriya, Gogulapati   +5 more
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Application of the fuzzy analytic hierarchy process in deep space exploration program optimization in China

工程科学学报, 2022
China’s deep space exploration program is a complex and systematic project involving many fields and having great technical difficulties and funding requirements.
Tong-jie LIU, Hong-qing SONG, Jie ZHANG, Xiao-tian LUO, Ru-yi PENG, Xian-guo ZHANG   +5 more
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The Photometric Investigation of V921 Her using the Lunar-based Ultraviolet Telescope of Chang'e-3 mission

, 2016
The light curve of V921 Her in ultraviolet band observed by the Lunar-based Ultraviolet Telescope (LUT) is analyzed by the Wilson-Devinney code. Our solutions conclude that V921 Her is an early type marginal contact binary system with an additional close-
Li, Lin-Jia, Qian, Sheng-Bang, Wang, Qi-Shan, Zhang, Jia, Zhou, Xiao   +4 more
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Mineral Abundances Inferred From In Situ Reflectance Measurements of Chang'E‐4 Landing Site in South Pole‐Aitken Basin

Geophysical Research Letters, 2019
During its first two lunar day measurements, the visible and near‐infrared spectrometer on board the Yutu‐2 Rover of the Chang'E‐4 mission acquired six in situ reflectance spectra from the floor of Von Kármán crater within the South Pole‐Aitken basin.
Xiaoyi Hu, Pei Ma, Yazhou Yang, Meng‐Hua Zhu, Te Jiang, Paul G. Lucey, Lingzhi Sun, Hao Zhang, Chunlai Li, Rui Xu, Zhiping He, Hongyu Lin, Changning Huang, Yuxue Sun   +13 more
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An Impacting Descent Probe for Europa and the other Galilean Moons of Jupiter [PDF]

, 2017
We present a study of an impacting descent probe that increases the science return of spacecraft orbiting or passing an atmosphere-less planetary body of the solar system, such as the Galilean moons of Jupiter.
Auster, U., Barabash, S., Galli, A., Gurvits, L. I., Hajdas, W., Jutzi, M., Lammer, H., Lasi, D., Magnes, W., Piazza, D., Thomas, N., Wieser, M., Wurz, P.   +12 more
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