In-Situ Radar Observation of Shallow Lunar Regolith at the Chang’E-5 Landing Site : Research Progress and Perspectives [PDF]
, 2023 Funding Information: This work is supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 42241139 and 42004099), the Opening Fund of the Key Laboratory of Lunar and Deep Space Exploration, Chinese Academy of Sciences (No.
Ding, Chunyu +5 more
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Age and composition of the youngest basalts on the Moon returned by the Chang’e-5 [PDF]
, 2021 Orbital data indicate that the youngest volcanic units on the Moon are basalt lavas in Oceanus Procellarum, a region with high levels of the heat-producing elements potassium, thorium, and uranium.
Bao, Zemin +24 more
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Design and Realization of Recovery System of Chang’e-5 Reentry Spacecraft
Space: Science & Technology, 2021 On December 17, 2020, the Chang’e-5 reentry spacecraft landed safely and brought back the lunar sample without damage. This paper describes the recovery system that has critically contributed to the scientific success of the Chang’e-5 missions and ...
Wei Huang +6 more
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Bulk compositions of the Chang’E-5 lunar soil: Insights into chemical homogeneity, exotic addition, and origin of landing site basalts [PDF]
, 2022 Lunar soil is a fine mixture of local rocks and exotic components. The bulk-rock chemical composition of the newly returned Chang’E-5 (CE-5) lunar soil was studied to understand its chemical homogeneity, exotic additions, and origin of landing site ...
Becker, Harry +9 more
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Evolution of the early Moon:insights from experimental petrology and returned lunar samples [PDF]
, 2023 This thesis presents my main findings exploring different aspects of the Moon's history and evolution including (1) the structure and composition of the early Moon, (2) the volatile (F) evolution of the lunar magma ocean (LMO), (3) the olivine-melt ...
Jing, Jiejun
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Stochastic hyperbola fitting, probabilistic inversion, reverse-time migration and clustering: A novel interpretation toolbox for in-situ planetary radar [PDF]
, 2023 Ground-penetrating radar (GPR) is becoming a mainstream tool in planetary exploration, and one of the few in-situ planetary geophysical methods. There are currently three missions (Perseverance, Tianwen-1, Chang'E-4) with GPR-equipped rovers, and two ...
Giannakis, Iraklis +1 more
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New Occurrence of Seifertite and Stishovite in Chang’E‐5 Regolith
Geophysical Research Letters, 2022 High‐pressure minerals in impact ejecta quantify shock conditions and provide clues for provenance analysis. The sampling site of Chang’E‐5 may contain distal ejecta, which is critical for constraining the impact events and interpreting the constitution ...
Runlian Pang +5 more
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Comprehensive mapping of lunar surface chemistry by adding Chang'e-5 samples with deep learning
Nature Communications, 2023 Lunar surface chemistry is essential for revealing petrological characteristics to understand the evolution of the Moon. Existing chemistry mapping from Apollo and Luna returned samples could only calibrate chemical features before 3.0 Gyr, missing the ...
Chen Yang +13 more
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Guidance Navigation and Control for Chang’E-5 Powered Descent
Space: Science & Technology, 2021 To achieve the goal of collecting lunar samples and return to the Earth for the Chang’E-5 spacecraft, the lander and ascender module (LAM) of the Chang’E-5 spacecraft successfully landed on the lunar surface on 1 Dec., 2020. The guidance, navigation, and
Honghua Zhang +3 more
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Geophysical Research Letters, 2021 Chang'e‐5 successfully returned ∼1,731 g of lunar samples on December 17, 2020. We systematically studied the morphology and morphometry of craters surrounding the Chang'e‐5 site based on high‐resolution images.
Yuqi Qian +10 more
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