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 …

A geologic time scale is a chronological system that separates the geological strata of a
planetary body into different units in temporal sequence and shows its progressive …

Volcanism is the most important endogenic geological process of the Moon, which is closely
related to its internal structure and thermal history. Lunar volcanism is one of the most …

A major lunar scientific question is the cause of the paucity of farside mare basalts. The
South Pole-Aitken Basin (SPA) is the largest (2400× 2050 km) and most ancient lunar …

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 …

Yutu-2 rover conducted an exciting expedition on the 41st lunar day to investigate a fin-
shaped rock at Longji site (45.44° S, 177.56° E) by extending its locomotion margin on …

Abstract The South Pole–Aitken (SPA) basin is the oldest and largest impact structure on the
Moon, and it gives particular insight on the lunar interior composition,–. However, the …

Our understanding of the lunar farside from orbital remote sensing is limited by the lack of
ground-truth constraints from returned samples. China's Chang'e-6 (CE-6) mission plans to …

In the central area of the South Pole‐Aitken (SPA) basin, an intermediate albedo, mafic
compositional anomaly (SPA Compositional Anomaly, SPACA) has been documented by …

Abstract Space exploration missions have placed renewed focus on the South Circumpolar
Region (SCR) of the Moon due to its unexplored nature by landed missions, potential water …