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Petrogenesis of Lunar Farside Highland Lithologies: Implications for Lunar Crust Formation

The Astrophysical Journal
The lunar soil samples collected by the Chang’e-6 (CE-6) mission provide a unique opportunity to study the composition and formation of the lunar crust on the farside of the Moon.
Jiaqi Zheng, Qi He, Zaicong Wang, Jun Huang, J. F. Pernet-Fisher, Yiheng Li, Xu Chen, Keqing Zong, Ioannis Baziotis, Long Xiao, Zhenbing She   +10 more
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Geomorphology, Mineralogy, and Geochronology of Mare Basalts and Non-Mare Materials around the Lunar Crisium Basin

Remote Sensing, 2021
The Nectarian-aged Crisium basin exhibits an extremely thin crust and complicated lunar geological history. This large multi-ring impact basin is characterized by prolonged lunar volcanism ranging from the Imbrian age to the Eratosthenian period, forming
Xuejin Lu, Haijun Cao, Zongcheng Ling, Xiaohui Fu, Le Qiao, Jian Chen   +5 more
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Noble gases and nitrogen in material from asteroid Bennu

Meteoritics &Planetary Science, EarlyView.
Abstract We report the elemental and isotopic abundances of all stable noble gases (helium, neon, argon, krypton, and xenon) in eight particles from asteroid Bennu returned by NASA's OSIRIS‐REx mission. We also report nitrogen abundances and isotopic ratios that were analyzed alongside neon and argon in four additional Bennu particles.
B. Marty, L. Zimmermann, E. Füri, D. V. Bekaert, J. J. Barnes, A. N. Nguyen, H. C. Connolly, D. S. Lauretta   +7 more
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Development and characterization of a regional lunar soil simulant for emirates lunar missions

International Journal of Mining Science and Technology
Lunar soil simulants (LSS) have been pivotal in the success of past and current lunar missions. They have enhanced the design of lander and rover wheels through interaction studies on the lunar testbed under simulated environmental conditions.
Bo Peng, Prabu Thannasi, Waleed El-Sekelly, Tarek Abdoun, Kemal Celik   +4 more
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Araguainha Dome, Brazil: A polygonal impact structure due to a complex pre‐impact regional structural framework

Meteoritics &Planetary Science, EarlyView.
Abstract We investigated the structural framework of the north–northwestern Paraná Basin in Brazil to test whether the pre‐impact structures in this region may have had any influence on the first‐order formation and morphostructure of the Araguainha impact structure (AIS).
Renato B. Bernardes, Wolf U. Reimold, Roger L. Gibson, Julia B. Curto Ma, Adolfo B. Silva, Natalia Hauser   +5 more
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Petrography and Shock Metamorphism of the Lunar Breccia Meteorite NWA 13120

, 2021
Lunar meteorites are the fragments of rocks that fell on Earth because of the impacts of asteroids on the Moon. Such rocks preserve information about the composition, evolutionary process, and shock history of the lunar surface.
Bowen Si, Hongyi Chen, Yikai Zhang, Lanfang Xie, P. M. Ranjith, Bingkui Miao, Zhipeng Xia, Chuantong Zhang   +7 more
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Experimental Investigation of Soil Adsorption Effects on Water Migration in Simulated Lunar Conditions

The Planetary Science Journal
Adsorption is a key mechanism governing water vapor diffusion in lunar regolith. To investigate this process, we conducted experiments under simulated lunar conditions—Knudsen diffusion conditions—using three soil types with varying water vapor ...
Yasheng Li, Zhi Wen, Wei Ma, Mingli Zhang, Chengdan He   +4 more
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Geochemical investigation of impactites from the Boltysh impact structure and possible relationship to early Danian sediments from the Umbria–Marche Basin, Italy

Meteoritics &Planetary Science, EarlyView.
Abstract Within the Danian Scaglia Rossa Formation appears a regionally correlatable horizon cutting across multiple sections and outcrops within the Umbria–Marche Basin of NE Italy, where it is intercalated with uniform pelagic carbonate successions. This horizon is called “ALE layer” and has tentatively been interpreted as a fine‐grained volcanic ash.
Toni Schulz, Sophia Wernitznig, Christian Koeberl, Bérengère Mougel, Alessandro Montanari, Frédéric Moynier   +5 more
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The Composition and Stratigraphy of the Chang’e-6 Landing Mare

The Planetary Science Journal
China’s Chang’e-6 (CE-6) mission returned lunar samples from the southern mare in the Apollo basin formed in the prominent South Pole–Aitken basin. The basic geological context of the landing mare has been well resolved.
Pei Ma, Zhiyong Xiao, Yichen Wang, Yunhua Wu, Yizhen Ma, Fanglu Luo, Rui Xu, Qingyun Deng   +7 more
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Possible Formation Mechanism of Lunar Hematite

Magnetochemistry, 2023
Hematite, a ferric mineral with diagnostic features in the visible and infrared spectral range, has recently been discovered in the polar regions of the Moon by the Chandrayaan-1 Moon Mineralogy Mapper (M3).
Yue Fu, Huizi Wang, Jiang Zhang, Jian Chen, Quanqi Shi, Chao Yue, Honglei Lin, Ruilong Guo, Anmin Tian, Chao Xiao, Wensai Shang   +10 more
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