An insight into India's Moon mission–Chandrayan-3: The first nation to land on the southernmost polar region of the Moon

NJ Kanu, E Gupta, GC Verma - Planetary and Space Science, 2024 - Elsevier
With the mission's completion, India became only the fourth nation in history to successfully
perform a soft landing on the Moon and the first nation to land a spacecraft close to the lunar …

[HTML][HTML] Planetary Radar—State-of-the-Art Review

AK Virkki, CD Neish, EG Rivera-Valentín… - Remote Sensing, 2023 - mdpi.com
Planetary radar observations have provided invaluable information on the solar system
through both ground-based and space-based observations. In this overview article, we …

Comprehensive analysis of Chandrayaan-3 landing site region focussing on morphology, hydration and gravity anomalies

RP Rajasekhar, AK Dagar, R Nagori, SS Bhiravarasu… - Icarus, 2024 - Elsevier
In this work, we performed a detailed characterization, of the inter-crater region around the
Chandrayaan-3 landing site (LS) using remote sensing data sets obtained from …

Polarimetric characterization of Chandrayaan-3 landing site near lunar south pole using high resolution Chandrayaan-2 DFSAR data

T Chakraborty, DK Pandey, R Mehra… - Planetary and Space …, 2024 - Elsevier
Abstract The Chandrayaan-3 (CH3) Vikram lander presents an unique opportunity to study
the radar scattering behavior of the landing site as well as human-made dihedral structure …

Investigating the Residual Polarimetric Distortion and Removing the Low-Quality Area of Chandrayaan-2 Dual-Frequency Synthetic Aperture Radar Full-Polarization …

X Zhao, Y Deng, H Han, H Zhang… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The dual-frequency synthetic aperture radar (DFSAR) in lunar orbit, using L-and S-bands, is
the only full-polarization (FP) SAR. It explores different layers of the moon, relying on the …