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Lunar Radiometric Measurement Based on Observing China Chang’E-3 Lander with VLBI—First Insight

Advances in Astronomy, 2019
China Chang’E-3 performed soft landing at the plains of Sinus Iridum on lunar surface on December 14th 2013 successfully; it opened a new window for observing lunar surface with radiometric tracking which many lunar scientific researchers always pursue ...
SongTao Han, ZhongKai Zhang, Jing Sun, JianFeng Cao, Lue Chen, Weitao Lu, WenXiao Li   +6 more
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Solar Activity Dependence of the Dayside Lunar Surface Potential in the Terrestrial Magnetotail

Geophysical Research Letters
On the dayside of the Moon, the surface potential is primarily determined by (a) photoelectron emission by solar radiation and (b) the ambient plasma environment.
Masahisa Kato, Yuki Harada, Shaosui Xu, Andrew Poppe, Jasper S. Halekas   +4 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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In Situ Measurements of Thermal Environment on the Moon's Surface Revealed by the Chang'E-4 And Chang'E-5 Missions

IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing
The thermal environment of the lunar surface is of crucial importance for the lander thermal design and the interpretation of scientific data. Clarifying the radiative sources and intensity on the outer surface of the lander is one of the key aspects of ...
Yuanzhou Liu, Shaopeng Huang
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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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Large-scale Roughness Properties of the Lunar North and South Polar Regions as Measured by the Lunar Orbiter Laser Altimeter (LOLA)

The Planetary Science Journal
The lunar polar regions are high-priority targets for scientific investigation and exploration. To aid these endeavors, we produced enhanced altimetry data from the Lunar Orbiter Laser Altimeter for the north polar region, from which we computed new maps
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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Simulations on Levitation and Spatial Distribution of Charged Dust on the Moon Surface

The Planetary Science Journal
The levitation of charged dust, which may cause serious hazards to astronauts and lunar rovers, has been one of the most significant challenges in lunar exploration.
Li Zongye, He Zhaoguo, Yan Qi, Ge Yasong, Cao Yong, Chu Yuchuan, Lai Hairong, Cui Jun   +7 more
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Correlation between Lunar Surface and Exospheric Sodium: Effects of Albedo-driven Temperature on Multilayer Sodium Reservoirs Rather than Surface Abundance Variations

The Astrophysical Journal
Sodium (Na) is a moderately volatile element in the lunar exosphere, released from the surface through thermal and nonthermal processes. We present a combined analysis of Chandrayaan-2 CLASS surface Na abundance, LADEE Ultraviolet–Visible Spectrometer ...
A. Devaraj, S. Narendranath, Sreeja. S. Kartha, Netra S. Pillai   +3 more
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Chang’E-5 In Situ Spectra Revealing Meter-scale Surface Temperature Distribution Characteristic of the Moon

The Astronomical Journal
The Lunar Mineral Spectrometer (LMS), on board the Chang’E-5 (CE-5) lander obtained the in situ spectra of the sampling area close to the Moon’s local noon.
Xin Ren, Lin Guo, Songzheng Yu, Bin Liu, Dawei Liu, Jianjun Liu, Wangli Chen, Wei Yan, Xiaoxia Zhang, Xu Tan, Qiang Fu, Wangjun Zhang   +11 more
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Comprehensive mapping of lunar surface chemistry by adding Chang'e-5 samples with deep learning. [PDF]

Nat Commun, 2023
Yang C, Zhang X, Bruzzone L, Liu B, Liu D, Ren X, Benediktsson JA, Liang Y, Yang B, Yin M, Zhao H, Guan R, Li C, Ouyang Z.   +13 more
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