Journal
JOURNAL OF EARTH SCIENCE
Volume 27, Issue 4, Pages 707-715Publisher
CHINA UNIV GEOSCIENCES, WUHAN
DOI: 10.1007/s12583-015-0655-3
Keywords
Chang'e-3; subsurface structure; impact cratering; Lunar Penetrating Radar; lunar exploration
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- Key Research Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences [KGZD-EW-603]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [41373066, 41403053]
- State Scholarship Fund of China [201406410040]
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The Chang'e-3 (CE-3) spacecraft successfully landed on one of the youngest mare surfaces on the Moon in December 2013. The Yutu rover carried by CE-3 was equipped with a radar system that could reveal subsurface structures in unprecedented details, which would facilitate understanding regional and global evolutionary history of the Moon. Based on regional geology, cratering scaling, and morphological study, here we quantify the subsurface structures of the landing site using high-resolution orbital and in-situ imagery data. Three layers of lunar regolith, two layers of basalt units, and one layer of ejecta deposits are recognized at the subsurface of the landing site, and their thicknesses are deduced based on the imagery data. These results could serve as essential references for the on-going interpretation of the CE-3 radar data. The ability to validate our theoretical subsurface structure using CE-3 in-situ radar observations will improve the methods for quantifying lunar subsurface structure using crater morphologies and scaling.
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