Low-cost robust processes are needed to produce construction materials for habitats and
civil infrastructure in the early stages of the development of a permanent base on the moon …

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 …

Lunar soil is a fine mixture of local rocks and exotic components. The bulk-rock chemical
composition of the newly returned Chang'E-5 (CE-5) lunar soil was studied to understand its …

Lunar mare basalts provide a probe to study the magmatic and thermal evolution of the
Moon. The Chang'e-5 (CE-5) mission returned samples from a young and hitherto …

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 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 …

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 …

Volatile elements have a fundamental role in the evolution of planets. But how budgets of
volatiles were set in planets, and the nature and extent of volatile-depletion of planetary …

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 …