The Earth is cradled in an atmosphere that burns up small impactors before they reach the
surface, and a magnetosphere that largely shields the surface from solar and cosmic particle …

The Moon is the nearest celestial body to the Earth. Understanding the Moon is the most
important issue confronting geosciences and planetary sciences. Japan will launch the lunar …

The present‐day distribution of mare basalts on the Moon is an important constraint on the
timing, duration, and flux of volcanism on the Moon. In this work, we find the global …

Cryptomare, buried basalt deposits by impact ejecta, is a significant component of the lunar
mare. Current research has focused on searching for cryptomaria through dark halo craters …

Spectral analysis of Mare Serenitatis has been carried out using Chandrayaan-1 Moon
Mineralogy Mapper (M3) data in order to map the compositional diversity of the basaltic units …

Lunar highland region and associated craters are mostly composed of anorthosite. In the
present study, we studied the reflectance spectra of terrestrial anorthosites collected from …

Images acquired by the Narrow Angle Camera of the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter allow
phase-ratio imagery of young lunar craters surrounded by dark halos. Such imaging is a …

Through the spectral analysis of Galileo Near Infrared Mapping Spectrometer (NIMS)
observations we now have a better understanding of the origin of dark ray craters (DRCs) on …

Context. The cryptomare in the Balmer-Kapteyn region is the oldest one on the Moon.
Determining the extent and formation of this feature can deepen our understanding of early …

Cryptomaria record the early mare volcanisms and put important constraints on the lunar
thermal and volcanic history and on the early partial melting of the mantle. This work focuses …