remote sensing Article Reevaluating Mare Moscoviense And Its Vicinity Using Chang’e-2 Microwave Sounder Data Zhiguo Meng 1,2,3,4, Shengbo Chen 1, Yongzhi Wang 1,2,3,* , Tianxing Wang 2 , Zhanchuan Cai 3, Yuanzhi Zhang 4 , Yongchun Zheng 4 and Shuo Hu 1 1 College of Geoexploration Science and Technology, Jilin University, Changchun 130026, China;
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[email protected]; Tel.: +86-4318-850-2362 Received: 5 December 2019; Accepted: 5 February 2020; Published: 6 February 2020 Abstract: Mare Moscoviense (148◦E, 27◦N) is one of the few large maria on the lunar farside, with the thinnest crust and a positive gravity anomaly. In this paper, the Chang’E-2 Microwave Sounder (CELMS) data was employed to study the microwave thermal emission features of mare basalts in Moscoviense Basin. The time angle and linear interpolation method are used to generate the brightness temperature (TB) maps at noon and night, as well as the TB difference (dTB) map. The obtained important results are as follows.