1609 AD marked the beginning of the modern scientific exploration of the Moon's crust when
Thomas Harriot and later Galileo Galilei made the first recorded maps of the nearside with …

It has long been recognised (eg, Ehricke 1985; Spudis 1996, 2016; Duke et al. 2006;
Benaroya 2010; Kornuta et al. 2019) that the Moon has the potential to play a pivotal role in …

Research on returned samples can provide ground truth for the study of the geological
evolution history of the Moon. However, previous missions all collected samples from the …

The formation and evolution of the South Pole‐Aitken (SPA) basin is critical to relating large
impact basin formation and modification to lunar geophysical evolution. Most prior models of …

We propose that current in-situ resource utilization schemes based on mining of water
resources on the Moon is unnecessary and unsustainable. Life support systems are capable …

The Moon has experienced an intense bombardment history since its formation. Fragments
of the impactor can remain on the lunar surface,–and can provide evidence of the evolution …

A robust assessment is made of the distribution and (spatially resolved) geologic context for
the newly identified rock type on the Moon, a Mg-spinel-bearing anorthosite (pink-spinel …

Abstract Chang'e‐4 (CE‐4) achieved the first farside landing in Von Kármán crater. In the
landing site, linear features have been identified previously from SLDEM and considered to …

Ancient layers of impact spherules provide a record of Earth's early bombardment history.
Here, we compare different bombardment histories to the spherule layer record and show …

Abstract NASA's Moon Mineralogy Mapper (M 3) has identified and characterized a new
lunar rock type termed pink spinel anorthosite (PSA)(Pieters et al., 2011). Dominated by …