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Characteristics of the lunar samples returned by the Chang’E-5 mission
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 range...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8974359/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35382442 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/nsr/nwab188 |
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author | Li, Chunlai Hu, Hao Yang, Meng-Fei Pei, Zhao-Yu Zhou, Qin Ren, Xin Liu, Bin Liu, Dawei Zeng, Xingguo Zhang, Guangliang Zhang, Hongbo Liu, Jianjun Wang, Qiong Deng, Xiangjin Xiao, Caijin Yao, Yonggang Xue, Dingshuai Zuo, Wei Su, Yan Wen, Weibin Ouyang, Ziyuan |
author_facet | Li, Chunlai Hu, Hao Yang, Meng-Fei Pei, Zhao-Yu Zhou, Qin Ren, Xin Liu, Bin Liu, Dawei Zeng, Xingguo Zhang, Guangliang Zhang, Hongbo Liu, Jianjun Wang, Qiong Deng, Xiangjin Xiao, Caijin Yao, Yonggang Xue, Dingshuai Zuo, Wei Su, Yan Wen, Weibin Ouyang, Ziyuan |
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description | 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 range of 1.40–9.35 μm, while 95% of the soils by mass are within the size range of 4.84–432.27 μm. The bulk density, true density and specific surface area of CE-5 soils are 1.2387 g/cm(3), 3.1952 g/cm(3) and 0.56 m(2)/g, respectively. Fragments from the CE-5 regolith are classified into igneous clasts (mostly basalt), agglutinate and glass. A few breccias were also found. The minerals and compositions of CE-5 soils are consistent with mare basalts and can be classified as low-Ti/low-Al/low-K type with lower rare-earth-element contents than materials rich in potassium, rare earth element and phosphorus. CE-5 soils have high FeO and low Mg index, which could represent a new class of basalt. |
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spelling | pubmed-89743592022-04-04 Characteristics of the lunar samples returned by the Chang’E-5 mission Li, Chunlai Hu, Hao Yang, Meng-Fei Pei, Zhao-Yu Zhou, Qin Ren, Xin Liu, Bin Liu, Dawei Zeng, Xingguo Zhang, Guangliang Zhang, Hongbo Liu, Jianjun Wang, Qiong Deng, Xiangjin Xiao, Caijin Yao, Yonggang Xue, Dingshuai Zuo, Wei Su, Yan Wen, Weibin Ouyang, Ziyuan Natl Sci Rev Earth Sciences 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 range of 1.40–9.35 μm, while 95% of the soils by mass are within the size range of 4.84–432.27 μm. The bulk density, true density and specific surface area of CE-5 soils are 1.2387 g/cm(3), 3.1952 g/cm(3) and 0.56 m(2)/g, respectively. Fragments from the CE-5 regolith are classified into igneous clasts (mostly basalt), agglutinate and glass. A few breccias were also found. The minerals and compositions of CE-5 soils are consistent with mare basalts and can be classified as low-Ti/low-Al/low-K type with lower rare-earth-element contents than materials rich in potassium, rare earth element and phosphorus. CE-5 soils have high FeO and low Mg index, which could represent a new class of basalt. Oxford University Press 2021-10-14 /pmc/articles/PMC8974359/ /pubmed/35382442 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/nsr/nwab188 Text en © The Author(s) 2021. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of China Science Publishing & Media Ltd. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Earth Sciences Li, Chunlai Hu, Hao Yang, Meng-Fei Pei, Zhao-Yu Zhou, Qin Ren, Xin Liu, Bin Liu, Dawei Zeng, Xingguo Zhang, Guangliang Zhang, Hongbo Liu, Jianjun Wang, Qiong Deng, Xiangjin Xiao, Caijin Yao, Yonggang Xue, Dingshuai Zuo, Wei Su, Yan Wen, Weibin Ouyang, Ziyuan Characteristics of the lunar samples returned by the Chang’E-5 mission |
title | Characteristics of the lunar samples returned by the Chang’E-5
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title_full | Characteristics of the lunar samples returned by the Chang’E-5
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title_fullStr | Characteristics of the lunar samples returned by the Chang’E-5
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title_full_unstemmed | Characteristics of the lunar samples returned by the Chang’E-5
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title_short | Characteristics of the lunar samples returned by the Chang’E-5
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title_sort | characteristics of the lunar samples returned by the chang’e-5
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topic | Earth Sciences |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8974359/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35382442 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/nsr/nwab188 |
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