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Potential of Probing the Lunar Regolith using Rover-Mounted Ground Penetrating Radar: Moses Lake Dune Field Analog Study [PDF]

, 2009
Probing radars have been widely recognized by the science community to be an efficient tool to explore lunar subsurface providing a unique capability to address several scientific and operational issues.
Anglade, A., Bluethmann, W., Bualat, M., Deans, M., Fong, T., Heggy, E., Horz, F., Kring, D., Lee, P., Mahiouz, K.   +9 more
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Assessing Potential Landing Sites With Favorable Illumination and Accessible, Potentially Volatile‐Rich Permanently Shadowed Regions Within Artemis Candidate Landing Regions

Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets, Volume 131, Issue 3, March 2026.
Abstract The lunar south pole features permanently shadowed regions (PSRs) that never receive direct sunlight. These regions maintain cold temperatures that potentially trap and accumulate volatiles over geologic timescales. Within NASA's Artemis candidate landing regions, we identified 130 candidate landing sites (CLSs) that satisfy the Human Landing ...
Lukas Wueller, Lauren M. Berger, Hephzibah Christopher, Kanori Sugimoto, Ashka D. Thaker, Louis Carton, William Jo, Seungil Lee, Riccardo Pedrelli, Pedro Sanchez, David A. Kring   +10 more
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Continuous monitoring of the lunar or Martian subsurface using on-board pattern recognition and neural processing of Rover geophysical data [PDF]

The ultimate goal is to create an extraterrestrial unmanned system for subsurface mapping and exploration. Neural networks are to be used to recognize anomalies in the profiles that correspond to potentially exploitable subsurface features.
Glass, C. E., Mcgill, J. W., Sternberg, B. K.   +2 more
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Intrusion‐Induced Forced Folding Model for the Origin of Séítah Formation Domes on the Jezero Crater Floor, Mars

Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets, Volume 131, Issue 3, March 2026.
Abstract The JPL rover Perseverance's investigations of Jezero crater's floor reveal that the ultramafic Séítah formation and the overlying mafic Máaz formation are deformed into a broad, low‐amplitude structural dome. Mastcam‐Z stereo images processed into digital outcrop models, together with RIMFAX ground‐penetrating radar profiles, were used to ...
Robert Barnes, Sanjeev Gupta, Allan Treiman, Steven Sholes, Gerhard Paar, Christian Tate, Andreas Bechtold, Katie Stack‐Morgan, James F. Bell III, Justin Maki, Briony Horgan, Jorge Nuñez, Chris Traxler, Thomas Ortner, Emileigh S. Shoemaker Thackston, Svein‐Erik Hamran, Sanna Alwmark, Melissa Rice, Vivian Sun, Olivier Beyssac, Andrew Annex, Adrian Brown, Linda Kah, David Flannery, Justin I. Simon, Sebastian Walter, Keyron Hickman‐Lewis, Ken Farley   +27 more
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Subsoil structure at the Chang’E-6 landing site revealed by in-situ Lunar Regolith Penetrating Radar

Communications Earth & Environment
As humanity’s first sample return mission from the lunar farside, China’s Chang’E-6 mission provides a unique window into understanding the dichotomy in lunar nearside-farside evolution. Chang’E-6 landed in the southwestern Apollo basin (~2.79 Ga) within
Zongyu Zhang, Chunyu Ding, Yan Su, Shaoxiang Shen, Wei Lu, Francesco Soldovieri, Zhiyong Xiao, Xingguo Zeng, Wei Du, Yuhang Liu, Changzhi Jiang, Gianluca Gennarelli, Ilaria Catapano, Shun Dai, Jianqing Feng, Yichen Wang, Jianjun Liu, Chunlai Li   +17 more
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Near-Surface Stratigraphic Structure of the Regolith Revealed Using Chang'e-2 Microwave Brightness Temperature Data

IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing
The stratigraphic structure of the lunar regolith was essential for studying the formation and evolution of the lunar shallow layer within the lunar crust, which was constrained by previous lunar missions through spectral remote sensing, laboratory ...
Chen Zou, Guoping Hu, Wei Yang, Wuming Zhang   +3 more
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Measurements of Dielectric Properties of Chang’E‐5 Lunar Samples

Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets, Volume 131, Issue 3, March 2026.
Abstract The Chang’E‐5 samples are the youngest lunar materials collected to date. Determining their dielectric properties is essential for understanding the physical characteristics of lunar regolith and refining its dielectric model. In this study, the real part of permittivity and the loss tangent of the Chang’E‐5 samples were systematically ...
Yuhang Liu, Yan Su, Ruigang Wang, Shun Dai, Dawei Liu, Bin Liu, Chunyu Ding, Jianjun Liu, Chunlai Li   +8 more
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Preliminary Regional Analysis of the Kaguya Lunar Radar Sounder (LRS) Data through Eastern Mare Imbrium [PDF]

, 2009
The Lunar Radar Sounder (LRS) experiment on board the Kaguya spacecraft is observing the subsurface structure of the Moon, using ground-penetrating radar operating in the frequency range of 5 MHz [1].
Antonenko, I., Cooper, B.L., Ku-mamoto, A., Ono, T., Osinski, G., Yamaguchi, Y.   +5 more
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Parameterizations of the linear energy transfer spectrum for the CRaTER instrument during the LRO mission [PDF]

, 2010
[1] The Cosmic Ray Telescope for the Effects of Radiation (CRaTER) instrument was launched as part of the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) spacecraft in June 2009. Its purpose is to measure the linear energy transfer (LET) spectrum in lunar orbit as an
Anderson, J. A., Charara, Y. M., Cucinotta, F. A., Delauder, N., Fisher, C. M., Golightly, M. J., PourArsalan, M., Schwadron, Nathan A., Spence, Harlan E., Townsend, L. W.   +9 more
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Characteristics of ejecta and alluvial deposits at Meteor Crater, Arizona and Odessa Craters, Texas: Results from ground penetrating radar [PDF]

Previous ground penetrating radar (GRP) studies around 50,000 year old Meteor Crater revealed the potential for rapid, inexpensive, and non-destructive sub-surface investigations for deep reflectors (generally greater than 10 m).
Grant, J. A., Schultz, P. H.
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