Fig. 1: The CE-6 landing region.
From: Landing site of the Chang’e-6 lunar farside sample return mission from the Apollo basin
a, Location and topographic features on the lunar farside: the SPA basin is outlined by a black dashed line; the CE-6 landing zone is outlined by a red box and the cross indicates the CE-4 landing site. Base map is a shaded-relief map from CE-1 DEM data. b, The CE-6 landing zone, located in the SPA basin interior along the southern rim of the Apollo basin (CE-2 DOM image). The albedo shows the distribution of basaltic (low albedo) and non-basaltic (higher albedo) materials in the zone. c, Topographic and morphological map of the proposed CE-6 sampling regions; region F (yellow solid line) represents the northwest plain, region L (blue solid line) the northeast lowland and region B (orange solid line) represents the southwest Apollo basin rim. The kipukas and WR are distributed in the F and L areas. Base map comes from CE-2 DEM data (20 m per pixel).
