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Aitken Basin region that we have probed with Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, Moon Mineralogy Mapper 2011). Thus, at a single location on the lunar surface, one can address the two highest science priorities for lunar exploration (NRC, 2007). A detailed geological analysis of the materials in and around Schrödinger using remote sensing data and impact cra-ter modeling are the subject of this paper. Schrödinger Basin has a mean diameter of 315 km, average depth of 4.5 km, and is centered at 75S, 132.5E, which places it er is one of the youngest lunar basins, only marginally older than Orientale (Wilhelms, 1987; Shoemaker et al., 1994). It has been targeted as an ideal location for a future landing site (O’Sullivan et al., 2011) because it is thought to have tapped deep crustal lithologies associated with the SPA basin-forming event, contain ejected lithologies from the Orientale basin-forming event, and has volcanic materials in later mare and/or pyroclastic eruptions on its floor (Shoemaker et al., 1994; Mest, 2011). Wilhelms et al. (1979) first mapped the basin as part of the geologic map of the south side of the Moon. The map describes Schrödinger’s walls, peak ring, and floor as Nectarian, an