Complementary Data for "Impact Resurfacing of the Artemis Exploration Zone: Sample Locations for Primordial Crust and South Pole-Aitken Ejecta"

This data is supplementary to Frueh et al. (2025), Impact Resurfacing of the Artemis Exploration Zone: Sample Locations for Primordial Crust and South Pole-Aitken Ejecta. JGR Planets, 130, e2025JE009050. https://doi.org/10.1029/2025JE009050

The data are accessed via Zenodo: 10.5281/zenodo.17195678--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

STRUCTURE

Folder "CET"

-> It includes the georeferenced tiff files and layer package of the cumulative ejecta model (CET).

Folder "Craters"

-> Folder "GIS" - It includes the shapefiles and ArcGIS Pro layerfiles of the mapped craters (plus the additional potential craters, discussed and shown in the supplementary information).-> Includes the Excel files, containing the calculations behind the stratigraphic excavation model.

Folder "Regolith_Composition"

-> It includes the georeferenced tiff files and layer package of the regolith composition map.-> Table including the pixel counts for the regolith composition within the candidate landing regions.

README.txt

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For further questions, please contact: [email protected] 

Thomas Früh, Department for Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Science, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, 23rd of September 2025

This work was conducted during the 2023 LPI Exploration Science Summer Intern Program, supported by funding from the Lunar and Planetary Institute (LPI) and the Center for Lunar Science and Exploration (CLSE), which is part of the NASA Solar System Exploration Research Virtual Institute (SSERVI). LPI is operated by the Universities Space Research Association (USRA).

Please cite both:

Frueh, T., Camon, A., Boyce, M., Halwa, S. L., Ligeza, G., Lemelin, M., Thomson, B. J., & Kring, D. A. (2025). Complementary Data for "Impact Resurfacing of the Artemis Exploration Zone: Sample Locations for Primordial Crust and South Pole-Aitken Ejecta" [Data set]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17195678

Frueh, T., Camon, A., Boyce, M., Halwa, S. L., Ligeza, G., Lemelin, M., Thomson, B. J., & Kring, D. A. (2025). Impact Resurfacing of the Artemis Exploration Zone: Sample Locations for Primordial Crust and South Pole‐Aitken (SPA) Ejecta. Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets, 130, e2025JE009050. https://doi.org/10.1029/2025JE009050

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Lemelin, M., Lucey, P. G., & Camon, A. (2022a). Compositional Maps of the Lunar Polar Regions Derived from the Kaguya Spectral Profiler and the Lunar Orbiter Laser Altimeter Data. The Planetary Science Journal, 3(3), 63. https://doi.org/10.3847/PSJ/AC532C

Lemelin, M., Lucey, P. G., & Camon, A. (2022b). Compositional maps of the lunar polar regions derived from the Kaguya Spectral Profiler and the Lunar Orbiter Laser Altimeter data [Data set]. In The Planetary Science Journal (Version 1). Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5847000

Tai Udovicic, C. J., Frizzell, K. R., Kodikara, G. R. L., Kopp, M., Luchsinger, K. M., Madera, A., Meier, M. L., Paladino, T. G., Patterson, R. v., Wroblewski, F. B., & Kring, D. A. (2023a). Buried Ice Deposits in Lunar Polar Cold Traps Were Disrupted by Ballistic Sedimentation. Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets, 128(5), e2022JE007567. https://doi.org/10.1029/2022JE007567

Tai Udovicic, C. J., Frizzell, K. R., Luchsinger, K. M., Madera, A., & Paladino, T. G. (2023b). Moonpies (v1.1.0). Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7606572

Tai Udovicic, C. J., Frizzell, K. R., Luchsinger, K. M., Madera, A., & Paladino, T. G. (2023c). Moonpies [Computer software]. https://github.com/cjtu/moonpies/