Landing Site Selection and Overview of China’s Lunar Landing Missions

• Published in: Space Science Reviews
• Main Authors: Liu, Jianjun, Zeng, Xingguo, Li, Chunlai, Ren, Xin, Yan, Wei, Tan, Xu, Zhang, Xiaoxia, Chen, Wangli, Zuo, Wei, Liu, Yuxuan, Liu, Bin, Liu, Dawei, Zhou, Qin, Ouyang, Ziyuan
• Other Authors: National Natural Science Foundation of China, Beijing Municipal Science and Technology Commission, China's Lunar Exploration Program
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Springer Science and Business Media LLC 2020
• Subjects: Space and Planetary Science; Astronomy and Astrophysics; Aitken; South Pole; The Landing; South pole
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11214-020-00781-9; http://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s11214-020-00781-9.pdf; http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11214-020-00781-9/fulltext.html

Abstract Landing site selection is of fundamental importance for lunar landing mission and it is closely related to the scientific goals of the mission. According to the widely concerned lunar science goals and the landing site selection of the ongoing lunar missions; China has carried out the selec...