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March 26th, 2022
Credit: CCTV/Inside Outer Space screengrab
Chinese scientists accurately determined the content of chemical elements in lunar soil samples brought back to Earth by China’s Chang’e-5 Moon sample return mission with nuclear technologies.
Photo taking during Chang’e-5 surface sampling.
Credit: CCTV/Inside Outer Space screengrab
Moon rock and regolith brought back to Earth by China’s Chang’e-5 lunar sample mission suggests that the samples are a new type of lunar basalt, different from those collected during previous U.S. Apollo and former Soviet Union robotic Luna missions.
China’s Chang’e-5 probe returned to Earth on December 17, 2020, parachuting back a total of around 1.73 kilograms of lunar samples.
Go to this informative video at: https://youtu.be/J_umrs6ZSsE
Chang’e-5 return capsule holding lunar specimens.
Credit: National Astronomical Observatories, CAS
Credit: CCTV/Inside Outer Space screengrab
Credit: CCTV/Inside Outer Space screengrab
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