Adsorption Kinetics of Water and Argon on Lunar Grains by Norbert Schörghofer

“…For ice buried beneath lunar soil, multilayer adsorption is expected well before the depth of the ice is reached.…”
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Two-step gradation of particle size in an inorganic-organic hybrid by Chen Tzehan, Chow Brian J., Qiao Yu

“…An inorganic-organic hybrid (IOH) of silica particulates and polyethylene (PE) was investigated, where silica was employed as an analogue to lunar soil. The objective was to search for the optimum materials design strategy for “lunar cements” – infrastructural materials based on locally harvestable resources on the Moon. …”
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Hydrogen-bearing vesicles in space weathered lunar calcium-phosphates by Katherine D. Burgess, Brittany A. Cymes, Rhonda M. Stroud

“…Here we present transmission electron microscopy analyses of Apollo lunar soil 79221 that reveal solar-wind hydrogen concentrated in vesicles as molecular hydrogen in the calcium-phosphates apatite and merrillite. …”
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Concept of a 3D-Printed Voronoi Egg-Shaped Habitat for Permanent Lunar Outpost by David Juračka, Jacek Katzer, Janusz Kobaka, Izabela Świca, Karol Seweryn

“…The presented 3D-printed structure was designed to be light and suitable to be covered by lunar soil. As a necessity in the developed concept, in situ resources utilization was addressed in order to generate products using local sources to reduce the number of materials that would be required to be transported from Earth. …”
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Performance Evaluation of a Coring Drill Based on Three Classical Lunar Simulant Conditions by Ye Tian, Fei Yang, Jihai Gu, Zongquan Deng, Mengmeng Chen, Panpan Yuan, Lifang Li

“…Using a grain size distribution method, three simulated lunar soils can be produced. Based on the positions of the critical particle and bit, new consumption and coring rate models are proposed. …”
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Design and Verification of a Novel Sampling System for Lunar Water Ice Exploration by Ruqi Ma, Weiwei Zhang, Rulin Ma, Wengcheng Ni, Shuiqing Jiang, Shengyuan Jiang

“…Aiming at the problem that it is difficult to collect the subsurface lunar water ice samples quickly due to the cementation-hardening of ice and soil at extremely low temperature in the permanent shadow regions, a novel lunar water ice sampling system is proposed, which uses kinetic energy penetration to efficiently expose the subsurface lunar water ice and uses manipulator to accurately collect and transfer the lunar soil samples. Based on the analysis of the working strategy of the sampling system, an engineering prototype of penetrating modular was designed and developed, and its penetration efficiency was tested based on the principle that the mechanical characteristics are equivalent. …”
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The microstructure and mechanical properties of microwave-heated lunar simulants at different input powers under vacuum by Sungwoo Lim, Giulia Degli-Alessandrini, James Bowen, Mahesh Anand, Aidan Cowley

“…In this study, we investigate the viability of microwave heating of two lunar soil simulants (JSC-1A and OPRH3N) under vacuum conditions, to simulate a lunar surface environment compared to previous studies performed at atmospheric pressure. …”
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A Systematic Investigation to Obtain Physical Assets on the Moon through Self-propagating High-temperature Reactions by G. Corrias, R. Licheri, R. Orru, G. Cao

“…Along these lines, by taking advantage of the fact that Lunar soil contains up to 20 wt.% of ilmenite (FeTiO3), the highly exothermic thermite reduction of the latter oxide with Al is systematically investigated in this work. …”
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Two Simulated Spectral Databases of Lunar Regolith: Method, Validation, and Application by Ping Zhou, Zhe Zhao, Guangyuan Wei, Hong-Yuan Huo

“…Then, we simulated the spectra, mineral abundance, particle size and maturity of 57 mare and highland samples of the Lunar Soil Characterization Consortium (LSCC) in size groups of 10 µm, 10–20 µm and 20–45 µm. …”
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Pseudo-Spectral Time-Domain Method for Subsurface Imaging with the Lunar Regolith Penetrating Radar by Yuxian Zhang, Naixing Feng, Guoda Xie, Lixia Yang, Zhixiang Huang

“…Recently and successfully, the Chang’E-5 (CE-5) lander was launched on a mission to bring 1.731 kg of lunar soil back to Earth. To investigate various compositions of lunar regolith, we apply the Lunar Regolith Penetrating Radar (LRPR) as the same scientific payload installed on the CE-5 lander. …”
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An Active Ribbon Dipole as an Array Element Prototype for the Lunar Very Low Frequency Radio Telescope by Peter L. Tokarsky, Alexander A. Konovalenko, Jozef W. Modelski

“…A dipole 10 m long lay on a flat surface of lunar soil, consisting of a layer of regolith 10 m thick and solid bedrock. …”
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Spectral interpretation of late-stage mare basalt mineralogy unveiled by Chang’E-5 samples by Dawei Liu, Xing Wang, Jianjun Liu, Bin Liu, Xin Ren, Yuan Chen, Zhaopeng Chen, Hongbo Zhang, Guangliang Zhang, Qin Zhou, Zhoubin Zhang, Qiang Fu, Chunlai Li

“…Laboratory spectroscopic and X-ray diffraction analyses on the Chang’E-5 lunar soil samples have demonstrated that the spectral features of lunar late-stage mare basalts are representative of iron-rich high-Ca pyroxene rather than olivine.…”
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Turning earthworms into moonworms: Earthworms colonization of lunar regolith as a bioengineering approach supporting future crop growth in space by Donato Romano, Adriano Di Giovanni, Chiara Pucciariello, Cesare Stefanini

“…The earthworms beneficial effects on soils may be promising to improve lunar soil fertility, enabling the use of local substrates for space farming. …”
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SPECTRAL UNMIXING BASED CONSTRUCTION OF LUNAR MINERAL ABUNDANCE MAPS by V. Bernhardt, A. Grumpe, C. Wöhler

“…A set of 19 laboratory-based reflectance spectra of lunar samples published by the Lunar Soil Characterization Consortium (LSCC) were used as a catalog of potential endmember spectra. …”
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Structure and Gait Design of a Lunar Exploration Hexapod Robot Based on Central Pattern Generator Model by Bin-Ming Shu, Ying-Qing Guo, Wen-Hao Luo, Zhao-Dong Xu, Qiang Xu

“…To address the challenges of sinking, imbalance, and complex control systems faced by hexapod robots walking on lunar soil, this study develops an umbrella-shaped foot lunar exploration hexapod robot. …”
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Design and Dynamic Analysis of the Wire-Line Coring Robot for Deep Lunar Rocks by Yufeng Wen, Guoqing Zhang, Heping Xie, Mingzhong Gao, Xu Zhang, Yaohui Wang, Cunbao Li

“…Subsequently, based on Prandtl’s failure mechanism and the prediction equations of the mechanical properties of the lunar soil, the mathematical relationship between the ultimate support force and the depth of the support point of the WSC robot was constructed. …”
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The Lunar Regolith Structure and Electromagnetic Properties of Chang’E-5 Landing Site by Yuxi Li, Bin Zhou, Shaoxiang Shen, Wei Lu, Chuanjun Tang, Shidong Li, Yan Su, Shun Dai, Guangyou Fang

“…On the basis of the response of lunar soil to electromagnetic (EM) wave, the EM properties of the landing site estimate that the relative dielectric constant and the loss tangent are 2.520 ± 0.186 and 0.0133 ± 0.0020, respectively.…”
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Recognition of Volumetric Scattering of Lunar Regolith Media in the PSR via Fully Polarimetric SAR Data by Niutao Liu, Feng Xu, Ya-Qiu Jin

“…Data of fully polarimetric synthetic aperture radar onboard Chandrayaan-2 make it feasible to analyze the geometric and physical properties of the lunar soil layer. A specific mission of Chandrayaan-2 is to investigate if there is water–ice in the regolith of the permanently shadowed region (PSR). …”
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NEW INSIGHTS INTO SOLAR WIND IMPLANTED VOLATILES FOR LUNAR REGOLITH CHARACTERIZATION: A SIMULATION BASED APPROACH by S. Shukla, S. Majumdar, A. Maiti, S. Kumar

“…The implantation processes exhibit a functional dependency on the surface temperature, ilmenite abundance and the activation energy associated with the optical maturity of the lunar soil. The prime focus of this study is to simulate the implication of these incident volatiles in characterizing the regolith for a better insight into the modeling of lunar exosphere during both Interplanetary Coronal Mass Ejection (ICME) and usual cases. …”
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Selection of Whole-Moon Landing Zones Based on Weights of Evidence and Fractals by Yaqin Cao, Yongzhi Wang, Jianzhong Liu, Xiaojia Zeng, Juntao Wang

“…The method takes the thickness of the lunar crust, roughness, slope, digital elevation model, gravity gradient, iron oxide distribution, and lunar soil optical maturity as evidence layers, and known landing sites as the target layer. …”
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