Dielectric Properties of Lunar Materials at the Chang’e-4 Landing Site

• Published in: Remote Sensing
• Main Authors: Jialong Lai, Feifei Cui, Yi Xu, Chaofei Liu, Ling Zhang
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: MDPI AG 2021
• Subjects: Chang’e-4; lunar penetrating radar; loss tangent; Science; Q; South Pole; Aitken; South pole
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.3390/rs13204056; https://doaj.org/article/6958b854950f43a6ad4e90a934d65f1e

On January 3rd 2019, the Chang’e-4 mission successfully landed in the Von Kármán Crater inside the South Pole-Aitken (SPA) basin and achieved the first soft landing on the farside of the Moon. Lunar penetrating radar (LPR) equipped on the rover measured the shallow subsurface structure along the mot...