The current state of understanding of the lunar interior is the sum of nearly four decades of
work and a range of exploration programs spanning that same time period. Missions of the …

As with all science, our continually developing concepts of lunar evolution are firmly tied to
both new types of observations and the integration of these observations to the known pool …

To address questions about the multiple lunar nearside–farside dichotomies and to provide
new insights into both the early impact history of the Solar System and the geological …

Over 60 years of spacecraft exploration has revealed that the Earth's Moon is characterized
by a lunar crust dominated by the mineral plagioclase, overlying a more mafic (richer in iron …

The surface of the Moon is a critical boundary that shapes our understanding of the Moon as
a whole. All geologic mapping and remote sensing techniques utilize only the outermost …

Gamma ray spectroscopy data acquired by Lunar Prospector are used to determine global
maps of the elemental composition of the lunar surface. Maps of the abundance of major …

The Moon is exceptional and important because it is the only planetary body besides the
Earth for which we have both a detailed stratigraphic history and datable rock samples that …

Chang'E− 4 lunar explorer is the backup of the Chang'E− 3, which is composed of a
communication relay satellite, a lander and a rover, it is estimated that the Chang'E− 4 …

Von Kármán crater (diameter=~ 186 km), lying in the northwestern South Pole‐Aitken (SPA)
basin, was formed in the pre‐Nectarian. The Von Kármán crater floor was subsequently …

Beyond the Earth, the Moon is the only planetary body for which we have samples from
known locations. The analysis of these samples gives us “ground-truth” for numerous remote …