ABSTRACT The Chang'e-5 (CE-5) mission, the first return of lunar samples to Earth since
the Apollo and Luna missions more than 44 years ago, landed on one of the youngest mare …

Dating young lunar surfaces, such as impact ejecta blankets and terrains associated with
recent volcanic activities, provides critical information on the recent events that shaped the …

Taking the Chang'e-5 (CE-5) sampling area as an example, this study carried out an
investigation on improving the crater size-frequency distribution (CSFD) dating accuracy of …

The chronology function and production function have been widely used to derive the model
ages of lunar mare regions from crater size‐frequency distributions. Challenges remain in …

Cratering chronologies are used to derive the history of planetary bodies and assume an
isotropic flux of impactors over the entire surface of the Moon. The impactor population is …

Mare basalts on the lunar surface are tangible expressions of the complex thermal evolution
and geological processes that have occurred within the lunar interior. These basaltic …

This study investigates the morphology and mineralogy of Nernst crater (116​ km diameter),
located in the Highland Terrane on the northwestern limb of the Oceanus Procellarum and …

We develop a 2-D numerical model of magmatism and mantle convection to understand the
volcanism on the Procellarum KREEP terrane (PKT) of the Moon, which continued for …

The Moon has a long and complex history of volcanism, which shapes the face that we see
from Earth to this day. In this dissertation, we use remote sensing to examine multiple …

The density of impact craters upon a terrestrial surface can give an accurate estimate of the
surface's formation age. The Moon has hundreds of millions of impact craters scattered …