Age and composition of young basalts on the Moon, measured from samples returned by Chang'e-5

X Che, A Nemchin, D Liu, T Long, C Wang… - Science, 2021 - science.org
Orbital data indicate that the youngest volcanic units on the Moon are basalt lavas in
Oceanus Procellarum, a region with high levels of the heat-producing elements potassium …

Apollo Next Generation Sample Analysis (ANGSA): An Apollo participating scientist program to prepare the lunar sample community for Artemis

CK Shearer, FM McCubbin, S Eckley, SB Simon… - Space Science …, 2024 - Springer
As a first step in preparing for the return of samples from the Moon by the Artemis Program,
NASA initiated the Apollo Next Generation Sample Analysis Program (ANGSA). ANGSA was …

Chang'E-5 samples reveal high water content in lunar minerals

C Zhou, H Tang, X Li, X Zeng, B Mo, W Yu… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
The formation and distribution of lunar surficial water remains ambiguous. Here, we show
the prominence of water (OH/H2O) attributed to solar wind implantation on the uppermost …

Mineralogy and chronology of the young mare volcanism in the Procellarum-KREEP-terrane

Y Qian, Z She, Q He, L **ao, Z Wang, JW Head… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Young lunar mare basalts are recent volcanic products distributed mainly in the Procellarum-
KREEP-Terrane. However, these young basalts were never investigated in situ until 2013 by …

Lunar farside South Pole‐Aitken basin interior: Evidence for more extensive central cryptomaria in the South Pole‐Aitken compositional anomaly (SPACA)

X Wang, JW Head, Y Chen, F Zhao… - Journal of …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
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 …

Evidence for a stratified upper mantle preserved within the South Pole‐Aitken basin

DP Moriarty Iii, RN Watkins, SN Valencia… - Journal of …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The evolution and compositional structure of the lunar mantle has been extensively modeled
but insufficiently constrained by observations. Here, we identify and characterize mantle …

Compositional maps of the lunar polar regions derived from the Kaguya spectral profiler and the Lunar Orbiter Laser Altimeter data

M Lemelin, PG Lucey, A Camon - The Planetary Science Journal, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Due to the challenging illumination conditions of the lunar polar regions, mineralogic maps
have generally been constrained to within 0–70 N/S. Here we generate a gridded …