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: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2021
• Subjects: Chang’e-4; lunar penetrating radar; loss tangent; South Pole; Aitken; South pole
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.3390/rs13204056

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...