First look by the Yutu-2 rover at the deep subsurface structure at the lunar farside

The authors here report results from the ground-penetrating radar onboard the Yutu-2 rover from the Chagn’E 4 mission. The study presents up to 330 m deep subsurface structure of the Von Karman Crater inside the South Pole Aitken Basin.

Bibliographic Details
Published in:Nature Communications
Main Authors: Jialong Lai, Yi Xu, Roberto Bugiolacchi, Xu Meng, Long Xiao, Minggang Xie, Bin Liu, Kaichang Di, Xiaoping Zhang, Bin Zhou, Shaoxiang Shen, Luyuan Xu
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2020
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-17262-w
https://doaj.org/article/51f0838ae8594f49ac5d4ec01c0cb837
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Summary:The authors here report results from the ground-penetrating radar onboard the Yutu-2 rover from the Chagn’E 4 mission. The study presents up to 330 m deep subsurface structure of the Von Karman Crater inside the South Pole Aitken Basin.