China's Chang' e-4 (CE-4) rover landed in Von Karman crater on January 3, 2019, and has acquired a large amount of data of the landing site. Craters are an important landform in lunar surface and the analysis of craters at the landing site with high-resolution images is of great significance for both scientific study and engineering safety. In this study, multi-sources data, including Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera Narrow Angle Camera (NAC) images, NAC digital elevation model (DEM), Chang' e-2 (CE-2) digital orthophoto map (DOM), SLDEM2015 and stereo images from panoramic cameras onboard the CE-4 rover, are involved to reveal the crater morphologic features at the landing site. The diameter, depth, spatial density and depth/diameter ratio (d/D) of the mapped craters have been investigated. Randomness analysis and the size-frequency distributions of craters in two scales are conducted to thoroughly elaborate the crater distribution in the landing area. The multi-scale crater investigation establishes a foundation for subsequent in-depth studies, e.g., crater evolution and degradation of lunar farside and CE-4 landing area dating.
Publication name |
ICARUS Volume: 355 Article Number: 114164 DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2020.114164 Published: FEB 2021 |
Author(s) |
Jia, Mengna; Di, Kaichang; Yue, Zongyu; Liu, Bin; Wan, Wenhui; Niu, Shengli; Liu, Jianzhong; Cheng, Weiming; Lin, Yangting |
Corresponding author(s) |
LIU Bin liubin@radi.ac.cn -Chinese Acad Sci, Aerosp Informat Res Inst, State Key Lab Remote Sensing Sci, Beijing 100101, Peoples R China. -POB 9718,Datun Rd, Beijing 100101, Peoples R China. |
Author(s) from IGCAS |
LIU Jianzhong | View here for the details
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