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Multi-scale morphologic investigation of craters in the Chang' e-4 landing area TEXT SIZE: A A A
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

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