Regolith-based additive manufacturing for sustainable development of lunar infrastructure–An overview

M Isachenkov, S Chugunov, I Akhatov, I Shishkovsky - Acta Astronautica, 2021 - Elsevier
This review discusses the development prospects of additive technologies for the
manufacturing of complex technological items on the surface of the Moon under scarce …

Lunar reconnaissance orbiter camera (LROC) instrument overview

MS Robinson, SM Brylow, M Tschimmel, D Humm… - Space science …, 2010 - Springer
Abstract The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera (LROC) Wide Angle Camera (WAC)
and Narrow Angle Cameras (NACs) are on the NASA Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) …

Two-billion-year-old volcanism on the Moon from Chang'e-5 basalts

QL Li, Q Zhou, Y Liu, Z Xiao, Y Lin, JH Li, HX Ma… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
The Moon has a magmatic and thermal history that is distinct from that of the terrestrial
planets. Radioisotope dating of lunar samples suggests that most lunar basaltic magmatism …

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 …

Characteristics of the lunar samples returned by the Chang'E-5 mission

C Li, H Hu, MF Yang, ZY Pei, Q Zhou… - National Science …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Forty-five years after the Apollo and Luna missions returned lunar samples, China's Chang'E-
5 (CE-5) mission collected new samples from the mid-latitude region in the northeastern …

China's Chang'e-5 landing site: Geology, stratigraphy, and provenance of materials

Y Qian, L Xiao, Q Wang, JW Head, R Yang… - Earth and Planetary …, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract China's Chang'e-5 (CE-5) mission, the first lunar sample return mission since 1976,
landed at 43.06° N, 51.92° W on Dec. 1, 2020, in Northern Oceanus Procellarum. CE-5 …

Young lunar mare basalts in the Chang'e-5 sample return region, northern Oceanus Procellarum

Y Qian, L Xiao, JW Head, CH van der Bogert… - Earth and Planetary …, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract Chang'e-5, China's first lunar sample return mission, is targeted to land in northern
Oceanus Procellarum, within a region selected on the basis of 1) its location away from the …

Detailed petrogenesis of the unsampled Oceanus Procellarum: The case of the Chang'e-5 mare basalts

Q He, Y Li, I Baziotis, Y Qian, L Xiao, Z Wang, W Zhang… - Icarus, 2022 - Elsevier
Lunar mare basalts provide a probe to study the magmatic and thermal evolution of the
Moon. The Chang'e-5 (CE-5) mission returned samples from a young and hitherto …

[HTML][HTML] Geochemistry of impact glasses in the Chang'e-5 regolith: Constraints on impact melting and the petrogenesis of local basalt

W Yang, Y Chen, H Wang, HC Tian, H Hui… - … et Cosmochimica Acta, 2022 - Elsevier
Lunar impact glasses can provide important information on the bulk compositions of their
sources and the impact history of the Moon. Here, we report the chemical composition of fifty …

The constitution and structure of the lunar interior

MA Wieczorek, BL Jolliff, A Khan… - … in mineralogy and …, 2006 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
The current state of understanding of the lunar interior is the sum of nearly four decades of
work and a range of exploration programs spanning that same time period. Missions of the …