X-ray images, lunar farside soil shed more light on moon
WEB11 hours ago · The Chang'e 6 lunar probe in June took 1,935.3 grams of soil samples from the South Pole-Aitken basin, the largest, deepest and oldest impact basin on the moon, marking the first time that scientists collected samples from the far side of the moon. The samples returned by the Chang'e 6 provided direct evidence for studying the early …
Volcanic Surprise: Scientists Discover Signs of Recent
WEB2 days ago · Meteorite impacts and volcanic eruption producing glass beads on the Moon. Credit: Illustration by T. Zhang & Y. Wang. Recent research using samples from the Chang’e-5 mission discovered volcanic glass beads that suggest lunar volcanism persisted as recently as 123 million years ago. This finding, supported by radioisotope dating, …
What lies on the moon’s mysterious far side? China’s Chang’e-6 …
WEB11 hours ago · For the first time in history, Chinese scientists have revealed what kind of material lies on the far side of the moon – a mixture of basalts and foreign ejecta largely different from the ...
Chinese scientists publish first paper decoding lunar farside
WEB1 day ago · CGTN. A collaboration team of Chinese scientists released the first research article studying farside lunar samples achieved by Chang'e-6 spacecraft. It was published on Monday in an open-access scientific journal website, National Science Review, according to the National Astronomical Observatories, Chinese Academy of Sciences.
Chang'e-6 lunar samples have "distinct characteristics": study
WEB1 day ago · The study was carried out jointly by members from the National Astronomical Observatories of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the Lunar Exploration and Space Engineering Center, and the Beijing Institute of Spacecraft System Engineering. ... The Chang'e-6 probe was launched from China on May 3, 2024. On June 25, its returner …
The moon might still have active volcanoes, China's Chang'e 5 …
WEB4 days ago · —China opens Chang'e 6 return capsule containing samples from moon's far side — Researchers want to build 'streetlights' on the moon — and they'd be taller than the Statue of Liberty
Chinese researchers reveal Chang’e-6 lunar samples composition
WEB1 day ago · Photo: CCTV. A joint research team consisting of several Chinese institutions on Tuesday published the very first research paper on the nature of lunar samples returned by the Chang'e-6 mission in ...
The Moon Might Still Have Active Volcanoes, China's Chang'e 5 …
WEB3 days ago · Future lunar missions could even leverage existing volcanic energy. The Chinese Chang'e 5 findings, published on September 5 in the journal Science, inspire further inquiry into the ongoing mysterious fiery potential of our celestial neighbor, adding layers to both lunar development and potential lunar habitation explorations.
The Moon had surprisingly recent volcanic activity, samples from ...
WEB1 day ago · Lionel Wilson, Lancaster University Volcanoes were erupting on the Moon as recently as 120 million years ago, evidence collected by a Chinese spacecraft suggests. Until the last few years, scientists had thought volcanic activity ended on the Moon around 2 billion years ago. The findings, published in Science, come from analysis of lunar rock and
Recent Volcanoes on the Moon? - geology.ucdavis.edu
WEB5 days ago · It was designed to collect lunar samples and return them to Earth. Like the other probes in China’s lunar exploration program, it is named after the Moon goddess of Chinese mythology. Wang and colleagues combed lunar soil samples returned by the Chang’e 5 mission for evidence of volcanic activity in the form of microscopic glass beads.
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