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The Scientific Value of a Sustained Exploration Program at the Aristarchus Plateau

Glotch, Timothy D.; Li, Shuai; Lucey, Paul G. +13 more

The Aristarchus plateau hosts a diversity of volcanic features, including the largest pyroclastic deposit on the Moon, the largest sinuous rille on the Moon, and intrusive and extrusive examples of evolved, Th-rich silicic lithologies. We provide an overview of previous remote-sensing measurements of the Aristarchus plateau and provide new analyse…