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China's Chang'e-5 mission offers new insights into evolution of Moon (2)

(Xinhua) 08:16, October 20, 2021

A research team of the Institute of Geology and Geophysics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences pose for a photo in Beijing, capital of China, Oct. 18, 2021. Chinese researchers have studied the lunar samples brought back by the Chang'e-5 mission and dated the youngest rock on the Moon at around 2 billion years in age, extending the "life" of lunar volcanism 800-900 million years longer than previously known. The study, conducted mainly by a research team at the Institute of Geology and Geophysics (IGG), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), was presented in three Nature papers and published online Tuesday. (Xinhua/Jin Liwang)


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