Olivine-norite rock detected by the lunar rover Yutu-2 likely crystallized from the SPA-impact melt pool

• Published in: National Science Review
• Main Authors: Lin, Honglei, He, Zhiping, Yang, Wei, Lin, Yangting, Xu, Rui, Zhang, Chi, Zhu, Meng-Hua, Chang, Rui, Zhang, Jinhai, Li, Chunlai, Lin, Hongyu, Liu, Yang, Gou, Sheng, Wei, Yong, Hu, Sen, Xue, Changbin, Yang, Jianfeng, Zhong, Jie, Fu, Xiaohui, Wan, Weixing, Zou, Yongliao
• Other Authors: Key Research Program of Frontier Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, National Natural Science Foundation of China, Beijing Municipal Science and Technology Commission
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford University Press (OUP) 2019
• Subjects: South Pole; Aitken; The Landing; South pole
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/nsr/nwz183; http://academic.oup.com/nsr/advance-article-pdf/doi/10.1093/nsr/nwz183/33097588/nwz183.pdf; http://academic.oup.com/nsr/article-pdf/7/5/913/38920090/nwz183.pdf

Abstract Chang’E-4 landed in the South Pole-Aitken (SPA) basin, providing a unique chance to probe the composition of the lunar interior. Its landing site is located on ejecta strips in Von Kármán crater that possibly originate from the neighboring Finsen crater. A surface rock and the lunar regolit...