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Lunar regolith thickness deduced from concentric craters in the CE-5 landing area
Z. Yue;  K. Di;  Z. Liu;  G. Michael;  M. Jia;  X. Xin;  B. Liu;  M. Peng;   J. Liu
2019
发表期刊Icarus
卷号329页码:46-54
摘要

Lunar regolith is the layer of fragmented and unconsolidated rock material that is repeatedly stirred and overturned on the lunar surface. It can provide critical information about lunar geologic processes (e.g., impact, volcanism) and the space environment. China's Chang'E-5 (CE-5) mission, which will be launched in 2019, will land on the lunar near-side surface and return at least 2 kg of lunar regolith through surface collection and by boring a hole no <2 m in depth. This study focuses on the depth of lunar regolith in the planned CE-5 landing area, which may be important for sampling activity and related scientific research. The traditional crater morphological method uses the dimensions of particular craters to derive the lunar regolith thickness, i.e., the lunar regolith thickness is estimated through the characterization of concentric, flat bottomed, and central mound craters. However, recent studies show that flat bottomed and central mound craters can also be formed by clustered projectiles. Therefore, only concentric craters were used to estimate the lunar regolith depth in this study, and subsequent morphological analysis indeed indicates that flat bottomed and central mound craters were primarily formed from secondary clustered impacts in this area. The precise locations and sizes of the selected concentric craters were determined from a high-resolution seamless Digital Orthophoto Map (DOM) of the CE-5 landing area, which was generated by our team using 765 selected LROC NAC images. All the concentric craters, including the inner and outer crater rims, were then mapped in the DOM. Local lunar regolith depths were derived according to the previously established relationship between lunar regolith depth and the inner and outer diameters. The results show that the lunar regolith in the area ranges from 0.74 m to 18.00 m, with a mean of 7.15 m, and is much shallower in the southeast than in other areas.

关键词Lunar Regolith ce-5 Landing Area concentric Craters
收录类别SCI
语种英语
文献类型期刊论文
条目标识符http://ir.gyig.ac.cn/handle/42920512-1/10848
专题月球与行星科学研究中心
作者单位1.State Key Laboratory of Remote Sensing Science, Institute of Remote Sensing and Digital Earth Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China
2.CAS Center for Excellence in Comparative Planetology, Hefei 230026, China
3.Space Science Institute, Macau University of Science and Technology, Macau 519020, China
4.Institute of Geological Sciences, Freie Unversitaet Berlin, Malteser Strasse 74-100, Haus D, Berlin 12249, Germany
5.Institute of Geochemistry Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guiyang 550002, China
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Z. Yue;K. Di;Z. Liu;G. Michael;M. Jia;X. Xin;B. Liu;M. Peng; J. Liu. Lunar regolith thickness deduced from concentric craters in the CE-5 landing area[J]. Icarus,2019,329:46-54.
APA Z. Yue;K. Di;Z. Liu;G. Michael;M. Jia;X. Xin;B. Liu;M. Peng; J. Liu.(2019).Lunar regolith thickness deduced from concentric craters in the CE-5 landing area.Icarus,329,46-54.
MLA Z. Yue;K. Di;Z. Liu;G. Michael;M. Jia;X. Xin;B. Liu;M. Peng; J. Liu."Lunar regolith thickness deduced from concentric craters in the CE-5 landing area".Icarus 329(2019):46-54.
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