Chandrayaan-3 is an upcoming lunar mission of India aimed at soft landing and carrying out
first-ever in situ investigations at a high-latitude location on the Moon. Chandrayaan-3 …

A new set of time-of-day–dependent global maps of the lunar near-infrared water/hydroxyl
(H2O/OH) absorption band strength near 2.8 to 3.0 μm constructed on the basis of Moon …

Lunar sulfides and oxides are a significant source of noble and base metals and will be vital
for future human colonies' self-sustainability. Sulfide detection (pyrite and troilite) applies to …

In situ resource utilization (ISRU) is required for the operation of both medium and long-term
exploration missions to provide metallic materials for the construction of lunar base …

The currently available area array imaging spectrometer fails to provide high spectral
resolution and fast imaging under a wide field of view (FOV). Therefore, this study proposes …

Context. The quantitative estimation of elemental concentrations at the spatial resolution of
hyperspectral near-infrared (NIR) images of the lunar surface is an important tool for …

A global map of the 3 He content of the lunar regolith has been constructed. Detailed studies
(³He, TiO 2, FeO content, slope maps) of several regions with highest predicted ³He content …

The function of a mask in the integral field imaging spectrometer (IFIS), which segments
image and samples, leads to the drawback of low spectral energy transmittance. Here, we …

Ring‐moat dome structures (RMDSs) are positive morphologic features found clustered
across many mare regions on the Moon, of which only a few isolated examples have been …

Abstract Analysis of observations of unique impact-produced flash near the lunar terminator
was performed. Maximal brightness of detected thermal flash is 5.2–5.9 m in R band, mass …