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The Geological History of the Chang'e-5 Sample Return Region TEXT SIZE: A A A
Chang'e-5 (CE-5), China's first sample-return mission, has successfully landed in Oceanus Procellarum near Mons Rumker. It is important to have a detailed study of the geological evolution of the CE-5 sample return region. This work aims to study the geological background, topography, geomorphology, major chemical composition, mineralogy, and chronology of the landing site region. First, we used the map of topography obtained by the Kaguya TC merged Digital Terrain Model (DTM) to analyze the topographic characteristics. Then, we used the Kaguya Multiband Imager (MI) reflectance data to derive FeO and TiO2 abundance and the hyperspectral data of the Moon Mineralogy Mapper (M-3) onboard the Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft to study the mineralogy of the landing site region. Later, we defined and dated the geological units of the landing area using the crater size-frequency distribution (CSFD) method. Finally, we conducted a detailed analysis of the volcanism and tectonism that occurred in the CE-5 landing area. The study region has experienced multi-stage magmatic activities (~3.36 Ga to ~1.22 Ga) and formed multiple mare units with different chemical and mineral compositions. The relationship between the wrinkle ridges cut by small impact craters suggests that the U7/Em5 has experienced Copernican aged tectonism recently ~320 Ma. The U7/Em5 unit where the Chang'e-5 sample return mission landed is dominantly composed of mature pyroxene and the basalts are mainly high-iron and mid-titanium basalts. Additionally, the analysis of pure basalt in the U7/Em5 suggests that the samples returned by the CE-5 mission may contain the ejecta and ray materials of young craters, including sharp B, Harding, Copernicus, and Aristarchus.

Publication name

 REMOTE SENSING Volume13 Issue22 Article Number4679 DOI10.3390/rs13224679 PublishedNOV 2021

Author(s)

 Deng, Jiayin; Cheng, Weiming; Jiao, Yimeng; Liu, Jianzhong; Chen, Jianping; Wang, Baixue

Corresponding author(s) 

 CHENG Weiming 
 chengwm@lreis.ac.cn  
 1. Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Geog Sci & Nat Resources Res, State Key Lab Resources & Environm Informat Syst, Beijing 100101, Peoples R China
 2. Univ Chinese Acad Sci, Beijing 100049, Peoples R China
 3. Jiangsu Ctr Collaborat Innovat Geog Informat Reso, Nanjing 210023, Peoples R China
 4. CAS Ctr Excellence Comparat Planetol, Hefei 230052, Peoples R China

Author(s) from IGCAS   LIU Jianzhong

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