Geological characterization of Chandrayaan-2 landing site in the southern high latitudes of the Moon

• Published in: Icarus
• Main Authors: Sinha, Rishitosh K., Sivaprahasam, Vijayan, Bhatt, Megha, Harish, -, Kumari, Nandita, Srivastava, Neeraj, Varatharajan, Indhu, Ray, Dwijesh, Wöhler, Christian, Bhardwaj, Anil
• Format: Other Non-Article Part of Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier 2020
• Subjects: Planetare Labore; South Pole; Aitken; The Landing; Vikram; South pole
• Online Access: https://elib.dlr.de/138804/; https://elib.dlr.de/138804/1/10.1016%40j.icarus.2019.113449.pdf; https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0019103518307036

ISRO's lunar orbiter-lander-rover mission Chandryaan-2 is scheduled to be launched in the mid of 2019. In this contribution, we have carried out detailed geological characterization of the prime landing site (70.9°S, 22.8°E) of the Chandrayaan-2 lander – “Vikram”. The proposed landing site is l...