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On the Origin of the Lunar Surface Features [PDF]
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 1954 Gérard P Kuiper
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A New View of the Lunar South Pole from the Lunar Orbiter Laser Altimeter (LOLA)
The Planetary Science Journal, 2023 Upcoming missions to the lunar south pole require detailed maps over large areas to fully characterize landing sites locally and regionally and to place their data into proper geologic context.
Michael K. Barker +6 more
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Leto Mission Concept for Green Reconnaissance of the Marius Hills Lunar Pit
The Planetary Science Journal, 2023 Lava tubes are potentially important sites for the long-term human presence on the Moon because they provide shelter from surface hazards, including micrometeorites, radiation, extreme temperatures, and dust.
Donald M. Hooper +5 more
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Remote Sensing, 2022 Lunar craters and rilles are significant topographic features on the lunar surface that will play an essential role in future research on space energy resources and geological evolution.
Yutong Jia +4 more
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Image-Based Lunar Hazard Detection in Low Illumination Simulated Conditions via Vision Transformers
Sensors, 2023 Hazard detection is fundamental for a safe lunar landing. State-of-the-art autonomous lunar hazard detection relies on 2D image-based and 3D Lidar systems. The lunar south pole is challenging for vision-based methods.
Luca Ghilardi, Roberto Furfaro
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The Search for Topographic Correlations within the Reiner Gamma Swirl
The Planetary Science Journal, 2023 Lunar swirls have been traditionally considered to be unaffected by topographic changes. Yet, correlations between areas of high albedo and lower elevations are observed in regions of the Mare Ingenii swirl. Here, we apply similar techniques used at Mare
John R. Weirich +6 more
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Applied Sciences, 2022 Extraction of mineral and rock information of lunar regolith is of far-reaching significance to the study of material composition, geological structure and historical evolution of lunar regolith.
Ping Zhou +3 more
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Evidence of water on the lunar surface from Chang’E-5 in-situ spectra and returned samples
Nature Communications, 2022 Laboratory analysis of returned Chang’E-5 samples from the lunar surface show their hydroxyl contents to be on the weak end of lunar hydration features.
Jianjun Liu +24 more
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Spectral interpretation of late-stage mare basalt mineralogy unveiled by Chang’E-5 samples
Nature Communications, 2022 Laboratory spectroscopic and X-ray diffraction analyses on the Chang’E-5 lunar soil samples have demonstrated that the spectral features of lunar late-stage mare basalts are representative of iron-rich high-Ca pyroxene rather than olivine.
Dawei Liu +12 more
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Morphological Features-Based Descriptive Index System for Lunar Impact Craters
ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, 2017 Lunar impact craters are important for studying lunar surface morphology because they are the most typical morphological units of the Moon. Impact crater descriptive indices can be used to describe morphological features and thus provide direct evidence ...
Min Chen +5 more
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