supported by National Science and Technology Major Project of the Ministry of Science and Technology of China(Lunar Exploration Program);National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.11572038);Chang Jiang Scholars Program
Chang'E-IV will be the first soft-landing and rover mission on the lunar farside. The relay satellite, which is located near the Earth-Moon L2 point for relay communication, is the key to the landing mission. Based o...
supported by the National Key Basic Research Program of China (973 program, No. 2013CB834900);the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. 11003010 and 11333002);the Strategic Priority Research Program "The Emergence of Cosmological Structures" of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (Grant No. XDB09000000);the Natural Science Foundation for the Youth of Jiangsu Province (No. BK20130547);the 985 project of Nanjing University;Superiority Discipline Construction Project of Jiangsu Province
We determine the proportions of two mixed crater populations distinguishable by size distributions on the Moon. A "multiple power-law" model is built to formulate crater size distribution N(D) ∝ D-αwhose slope ...
supported by the Key Research Program of Chinese Academy of Sciences (KGED-EW-603);the National Basic Research Program of China (973-program, Grant No. 2014CB845800);the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 11203033, 11473036, U1231115 and U1431108)
We present a star catalog extracted from the Lunar-based Ultraviolet Telescope (LUT) survey program. LUT's observable sky area is a circular belt around the Moon's north pole, and the survey program covers a prefe...
supported by the National Basic Research Programof China(973 Program)(2012CB720000);the National Natural Science Foundation of China(11102020);Program for New Century Excellent Talents in University;Beijing Higher Education Young Elite Teacher Project and China Scholarship Council
Asteroid exploration trajectories which start from a lunar orbit are investigated in this work.It is assumed that the probe departs from lunar orbit and returns to the vicinity of Earth,then escapes from the Earth by ...
supported by National Basic Research Program of China (Grant No. 2009CB723906);National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 60972141)
As an active microwave remote sensing imaging sensor, Synthetic Aperture Radar(SAR) plays an important role in earth observation. Here we establish a SAR system based on the platform of the moon. This will aid large-s...
supported by the Ministry of Science and Technology of China and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 10803008, 10978020 and 10878019)
The Lunar-based Ultraviolet Telescope (LUT) is a funded lunar-based ultraviolet telescope dedicated to continuously monitor- ing variable stars for as long as dozens of days and performing low Galactic latitude sky ...
Funded by the National 973 Programof China (No.2006CB701301) ;the Basic Research of Geomatics and Geodesy of the Key Laboratory of Geo-space Environment and Geodesy, Ministry of Education, China (No.03-04-10) .
According to the history of lunar detection, the relationship between selenodesy and lunar detection is reviewed , and the focus of the lunar detection and the lunar detection plan of China are summarized. The key tec...