47th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference (2016) 1825.pdf Geological Mapping of Sinus Iridum Area of the Moon Based on the Chang’E-I Data of China K. Y. Han1, X. Z. Ding2, J. F. Pang3 1 Institute of Geology, Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences, Beijing 100037, China,
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[email protected] 1 Introduction features (crater, et al), types of accumulative materials Based on CCD image, Imaging Interferometer(IIM) (ejecta, et al), relations of each other’s coverage and data, DEM data, contents of minerals and elements spectral features of different regions. The geological obtained by the Chang’E-I lunar exploration project of times of strata and geological bodies include the pre- China in 2007, a study for 1:2.5M-scale digital geolog- Imbrian (PI), consisting of the pre-Nectarian(PN) and ical mapping around Sinus Iridum area was conducted. the Nectarian (N); the Imbrian (I), consisting of the The purpose of the study is to apply these data and Early Imbrian (I1) and Late Imbrian (I2); the Eratosthe- information and analytic results to carrying out tenta- nian (E) and the Copernican(C). This typically summa- tive geological mapping (1:2.5 M) of the Sinus Iridum rizes the evolutional history of the lunar regional geol- area, setting up a spatial database and preliminarily ogy. formulate the technical specification, procedure and As regards