First look by the Yutu-2 rover at the deep subsurface structure at the lunar farside

Jialong Lai; Yi Xu; Roberto Bugiolacchi; Xu Meng; Long Xiao; Minggang Xie; Bin Liu; Kaichang Di; Xiaoping Zhang; Bin Zhou; Shaoxiang Shen; Luyuan Xu

doi:10.1038/s41467-020-17262-w

Nature Communications (Jul 2020)

First look by the Yutu-2 rover at the deep subsurface structure at the lunar farside

Jialong Lai,
Yi Xu,
Roberto Bugiolacchi,
Xu Meng,
Long Xiao,
Minggang Xie,
Bin Liu,
Kaichang Di,
Xiaoping Zhang,
Bin Zhou,
Shaoxiang Shen,
Luyuan Xu

Affiliations

Jialong Lai: State Key Laboratory of Lunar and Planetary Sciences, Macau University of Science and Technology
Yi Xu: State Key Laboratory of Lunar and Planetary Sciences, Macau University of Science and Technology
Roberto Bugiolacchi: State Key Laboratory of Lunar and Planetary Sciences, Macau University of Science and Technology
Xu Meng: State Key Laboratory of Lunar and Planetary Sciences, Macau University of Science and Technology
Long Xiao: State Key Laboratory of Lunar and Planetary Sciences, Macau University of Science and Technology
Minggang Xie: State Key Laboratory of Lunar and Planetary Sciences, Macau University of Science and Technology
Bin Liu: State Key Laboratory of Remote Sensing Science, Aerospace Information Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Science
Kaichang Di: State Key Laboratory of Remote Sensing Science, Aerospace Information Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Science
Xiaoping Zhang: State Key Laboratory of Lunar and Planetary Sciences, Macau University of Science and Technology
Bin Zhou: Key Laboratory of Electromagnetic Radiation and Detection Techonology, Chinese Academy of Sceience
Shaoxiang Shen: Key Laboratory of Electromagnetic Radiation and Detection Techonology, Chinese Academy of Sceience
Luyuan Xu: State Key Laboratory of Lunar and Planetary Sciences, Macau University of Science and Technology

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-17262-w
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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The authors here report results from the ground-penetrating radar onboard the Yutu-2 rover from the Chagn’E 4 mission. The study presents up to 330 m deep subsurface structure of the Von Karman Crater inside the South Pole Aitken Basin.

Published in Nature Communications

ISSN: 2041-1723 (Online)
Publisher: Nature Portfolio
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Science
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