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Chang’E-5 collects first lunar samples in 45 years!

by Erica Watson
October 21, 2021
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Last December, China’s impressive lunar sampling mission reverted to Earth with the initial lunar samples since NASA’s Apollo and Russia’s Luna missions concluded in 1976. The initial new samples in 45 years have now been investigated — and they hold clues to earlier issues about the moon while also creating different ones, according to a study printed Tuesday in the magazine Nature.
The Chang’E-5 mission, titled after the demigoddess of the moon from classical Chinese mythicism, transported back approximately 4 pounds of lunar dirt and stone from an earlier unvisited part of basalt. The basalt, a kind of stone formed from solidified basalt flow, was created to keep proof of when volcanic activity happened on the Moon’s outside.

The study company applied radiometric dating on 47 basalt pieces — the most massive, about the diameter of “10 sheets heaped collectively” and the tiniest, only the area of a sand particle — and discovered they were about 2 billion years old.
Investigators were shocked to discover that the specimens were 800 to 900 million years younger than the Apollo and Luna specimens showed.

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Nonetheless, “This is the youngest crystallization time ever recorded for lunar basaltic stones by radiometric estimation, extending the… eons of lunar basalt by 800 to 900 million years,” researcher Li Chunlai of the National Astronomical Observatories of the Chinese Academy of Sciences announced in a press statement following the investigation. “This research presents the initial convincing proof that magmatic movement on the Moon endured until at least two billion years ago.”

The latest specimens also served to hone a process of discovering the period of a planetoid, identified as crater-counting chronology. While the Apollo and Luna specimens “presented an introductory database for periods varying from 4 to 3.1 billion years ago, as well as those more recent than one billion years ago,” the latest Chang’E samples provide data in the center, “answering the long-sought-after aim to connect the unanchored intermediate division of the lunar crater-counting chronology,” Li stated.

However, the specimens also generated different stories. The Apollo and Luna specimens were formed of KREEP, a blend of potassium, rarefied earth particles, and phosphorus — but the Chang’E specimens were composed of a distinctive set of magma.
“According to the former system, the KREEP-like elements would produce energy to support the survival of fresh magma. Nevertheless, if this is not the problem – as these events propose – we should rethink the tools bearing the survival of the younger lunar magmatic movement,” Li stated.

The experts told the process moves how they believe about the “thermic and biochemical development” of the moon. The study company intends to proceed to examine the specimens and conceivably throw light on how — and why — lunar volcanic movement developed between the Apollo and Luna specimens and the Chang’E specimens.

The Chang’E 5 specimens were obtained from Oceanus Procellarum, a lunar dam of basalt comprising over ten percent of the Moon’s cover. Unlike other retrieved basaltic minerals, these newest specimens don’t have similar levels of potassium, phosphorus, and rarefied earth components – a combination identified as KREEP – and experts aren’t certain why.

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