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Comprehensive Evaluation of the Lunar South Pole Landing Sites Using Self-Organizing Maps for Scientific and Engineering Purposes

Remote Sensing
The permanently shadowed regions of the lunar South Pole have become a key target for international lunar exploration due to their unique scientific value and engineering challenges.
Hengxi Liu, Yongzhi Wang, Shibo Wen, Sheng Zhang, Kai Zhu, Jianzhong Liu   +5 more
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The Generation of High-Resolution Mapping Products for the Lunar South Pole Using Photogrammetry and Photoclinometry

Remote Sensing
High-resolution and high-accuracy mapping products of the Lunar South Pole (LSP) will play a vital role in future lunar exploration missions. Existing lunar global mapping products cannot meet the needs of engineering tasks, such as landing site ...
Pengying Liu, Xun Geng, Tao Li, Jiujiang Zhang, Yuying Wang, Zhen Peng, Yinhui Wang, Xin Ma, Qiudong Wang   +8 more
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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, Erwan Mazarico, Gregory A. Neumann, David E. Smith, Maria T. Zuber, James W. Head, Xiaoli Sun   +6 more
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Grand canyons on the Moon [PDF]

Nature Communications
High energy streams of rock ejected from the Schrödinger impact basin carved two canyons in the lunar crust that are comparable in size to the Grand Canyon of North America.
David A. Kring, Danielle P. Kallenborn, Gareth S. Collins   +2 more
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Impact-induced ultra-high melting point oldhamite discovered in Chang’E-6 lunar soil [PDF]

Nature Communications
Chang’E-6 lunar soil was the first sample collected on the lunar farside. It provides insights into impact history and thermodynamic evolution of the Moon. Here we show the discovered widespread oldhamite (CaS) in lunar regolith samples.
Chen Li, Yang Li, Ronghua Pang, Jiyang Xie, Zixuan Han, Yuanyun Wen, Xiaojia Zeng, Li Wang, Ziyan Qin, Jie Yang, Wanbiao Hu, Jianzhong Liu, Xiongyao Li, Wenhui Ma   +13 more
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Optimized Landing Site Selection at the Lunar South Pole: A Convolutional Neural Network Approach

IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing
The identification of optimal landing sites is a critical first step for successful missions to the Moon and other extraterrestrial bodies, necessitating the integration of various environmental factors over large spatial scales. At the lunar south pole,
Yongjiu Feng, Haoteng Li, Xiaohua Tong, Pengshuo Li, Rong Wang, Shurui Chen, Mengrong Xi, Jingbo Sun, Yuhao Wang, Huaiyu He, Chao Wang, Xiong Xu, Huan Xie, Yanmin Jin, Sicong Liu   +14 more
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Lunar primitive mantle olivine returned by Chang’e-6 [PDF]

Nature Communications
The lunar mantle is important for unraveling the Moon’s formation and early differentiation processes. Here, we identify primitive lunar olivines in soils returned by the Chang’e-6 mission.
Si-Zhang Sheng, Shui-Jiong Wang, Qiu-Li Li, Shitou Wu, Hao Wang, Jun-Xiang Hua, Zhenyu Chen, Jin-Hua Hao, Bo Zhang, Yongsheng He, Jian-Ming Zhu   +10 more
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Detection of Surface Rocks and Small Craters in Permanently Shadowed Regions of the Lunar South Pole Based on YOLOv7 and Markov Random Field Algorithms in SAR Images

Remote Sensing
Excluding rough areas with surface rocks and craters is critical for the safety of landing missions, such as China’s Chang’e-7 mission, in the permanently shadowed region (PSR) of the lunar south pole.
Tong Xia, Xuancheng Ren, Yuntian Liu, Niutao Liu, Feng Xu, Ya-Qiu Jin   +5 more
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The ESA Lunar Robotics Challenge: Simulating operations at the lunar south pole [PDF]

Journal of Field Robotics, 2012
AbstractIn 2008, the European Space Agency (ESA) challenged universities to design, develop, and test teleoperated robotic systems for a soil‐sampling mission in a simulated lunar‐crater‐like environment. Eight teams participated and developed a wide range of engineering solutions that addressed the various technical and operational challenges posed by
Felipe A. W. Belo, Andreas Birk 0002, Christopher Brunskill, Frank Kirchner, Vaios Lappas, C. David Remy, Stefano Roccella, Claudio Rossi 0001, Antti Tikanmäki, Gianfranco Visentin   +9 more
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Development and Prospect of Chinese Lunar Relay Communication Satellite

Space: Science & Technology, 2021
Relay communication satellites play a very important role on the lunar far side and pole areas exploration missions. Queqiao relay communication satellite was developed to provide relay communication support for the lander and the rover of Chang’e-4 ...
Lihua Zhang
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