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Strength Evolution of Lunar Highland Regolith Simulant LHS-1E with Moisture Content: Insights from Compressive, Shear, and Indirect Tensile Tests

Geosciences
The Artemis program led by NASA aims to establish a sustained human presence at the lunar south pole, increasing the need to characterise the mechanical behaviour of polar regolith, particularly within the highland terrains that dominate the lunar crust.
Gal-Erdene Battsengel, Noune Melkoumian, David Harvey, Rini Akmeliawati   +3 more
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Inferring the Variability of Dielectric Constant on the Moon from Mini-RF S-Band Observations

Remote Sensing
The physical properties of lunar regolith are crucial for exploration planning, hazard assessment, and characterizing scientific targets at global and polar scales. The dielectric constant, a key property, offers insights into lunar material distribution
Shashwat Shukla, Gerald Wesley Patterson, Abhisek Maiti, Shashi Kumar, Nicholas Dutton   +4 more
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Recent Tectonic Deformation of the Lunar Farside Mare and South Pole–Aitken Basin

The Planetary Science Journal
The timing and scale of lunar tectonism provide a crucial insight into the geologic evolution of Earth’s Moon. Within the nearside lunar maria, wrinkle ridges formed during and after the emplacement of the mare basalts as a result of subsidence-induced ...
C. A. Nypaver, T. R. Watters, J. D. Clark   +2 more
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Optical Imaging Chain Modeling for the Permanently Shadowed Regions at Lunar South Pole

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing
Lunar exploration has garnered significant attention for decades and the lunar poles have been the next exploration hot spot for the cold trapping of volatiles in the permanent shadowed regions (PSRs) at the lunar poles. Remote sensing through the satellite's optical load is one of the most important ways to get the scientific data of PSRs.
Menghao Li, Jiapu Yan, Ruikang Li, Zhihai Xu, Qi Li 0018, Huajun Feng, Haoyang Mao, Yuanfang Qiu, Yueting Chen   +8 more
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Shape-from-shading Refinement of LOLA and LROC NAC Digital Elevation Models: Applications to Upcoming Human and Robotic Exploration of the Moon

The Planetary Science Journal
The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) has returned a wealth of remotely sensed data of the Moon over the past 15 years. As preparations are under way to return humans to the lunar surface with the Artemis campaign, LRO data have become a cornerstone for
Benjamin D. Boatwright, James W. Head
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Petrogenesis of Very‐Low‐Ti Basalts Returned by Chang'e‐6 From the Lunar Farside

Geophysical Research Letters
Lunar volcanism provides critical insights into the Moon's thermochemical evolution. We present petrological and geochemical analyses of six very‐low‐Ti (VLT) basalt fragments from Chang'e‐6 (CE6) samples. These basalts yield a Pb‐Pb age of around 2.9 Ga,
Shitou Wu, Di Zhang, Heng‐Ci Tian, Wei Yang, Hao Wang, Yueheng Yang, Xu Tang, Chao Huang, Lihui Jia, Qiuli Li, Qin Zhou, Yi Chen, Sen Hu, Xian‐Hua Li, Fu‐Yuan Wu   +14 more
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The Polar Resources Ice Mining Experiment-1 (PRIME-1) Payload Operations Summary from the IM-2 Mission

The Planetary Science Journal
The Polar Resources Ice Mining Experiment-1 (PRIME-1) payload was designed to aid in NASA’s Lunar In-Situ Resource Utilization (ISRU) technology development program. It was proposed for resource reconnaissance, identifying and quantifying volatiles up to
Matthew Hancock, Roberto Aguilar Ayala, Julie Kleinhenz, James Smith, Prital Johnson, Rolando Nieves, John Ryan O’Farrell, Amy Eichenbaum, Rodolphe Carro, Stefan Tomovic, Christopher Johnson, Alexander Jarnot, Aleksandra Gawronska, P. Douglas Archer Jr., Amy McAdam, Nilab Azim, Ryan Gott, Morgan Crabtree, Philip Chu, Nicholas Bottomley, Paul Creekmore, Carter Fortuin, Samuel Goldman, Isabel King, Gale Paulsen, Jaqueline Stamboltsian, Vincent Vendiola, Kris Zacny, Janine Captain, Jacqueline Quinn   +29 more
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Southward impact excavated magma ocean at the lunar South Pole-Aitken basin. [PDF]

Nature
Andrews-Hanna JC, Bottke WF, Broquet A, Evans AJ, Gowman G, Johnson BC, Keane JT, Levin JN, Mallik A, Marchi S, Moruzzi SA, Roy A, Wakita S.   +12 more
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Geologic evolution of the Moon studied through young lunar basaltic volcanism. [PDF]

Nat Commun
Chen J, Luo F, He H, Galien L, Oliveira BH.   +4 more
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A southward differentiated impactor forms the tapered shape of the South Pole-Aitken impact basin on the Moon. [PDF]

Sci Adv
Wakita S, Johnson BC, Andrews-Hanna JC, Gowman G, Davison TM, Collins GS, Bill CA, Marchi S, M Alexander A, Bottke WF, Evans AJ.   +10 more
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