Characteristics of the lunar samples returned by the Chang’E-5 mission

Li, Chunlai; Hu, Hao; Yang, Mengfei; Pei, Zhaoyu; Zhou, Qin; Ren, Xin; Liu, Bin; Liu, Dawei; Zeng, Xingguo; Zhang, Guangliang; Zhang, Hongbo; Liu, Jianjun; Wang, Q.; Deng, Xiangjin; Xiao, Caijin; Yao, Yonggang; Xue, Dingshuai; Zuo, Wei; Su, Yan; Wen, Weibin; Ouyang, Ziyuan

doi:10.1093/nsr/nwab188

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Characteristics of the lunar samples returned by the Chang’E-5 mission

Published in National Science Review • Oct 13, 2021

Authors:

Chunlai Li

Hao Hu

Mengfei Yang

Abstract

Abstract Forty-five years after the Apollo and Luna missions returned lunar samples, China's Chang’E-5 (CE-5) mission collected new samples from the mid-latitude region in the northeastern Oceanus Procellarum of the Moon. Our study shows that 95% of CE-5 lunar soil sizes are found to be within the r...

Subject

Basalt

Regolith

Lunar soil

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