Mineralogical and chemical properties inversed from 21-lunar-day VNIS observations taken during the Chang’E-4 mission

• Published in: Scientific Reports
• Main Authors: Zeng, Qinghong, Chen, Shengbo, Zhang, Yuanzhi, Mu, Yongling, Dai, Rui, Yang, Congyu, Li, Anzhen, Lu, Peng
• Other Authors: Strategic Priority Research Program of Chinese Academy of Sciences, National Natural Science Foundation of China
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Springer Science and Business Media LLC 2021
• Subjects: Multidisciplinary; South Pole; Aitken; South pole
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-93694-8; https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-93694-8.pdf; https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-93694-8

Abstract We report on the mineralogical and chemical properties of materials investigated by the lunar rover Yutu-2, which landed on the Von Kármán crater in the pre-Nectarian South Pole–Aitken (SPA) basin. Yutu-2 carried several scientific payloads, including the Visible and Near-infrared Imaging S...