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Polycyclic aromatics in the Chang’E 5 lunar soils [PDF]

Nature Communications
Polycyclic aromatics are ubiquitous in the interstellar medium and meteorites, yet the search for lunar polycyclic aromatics remains a significant challenge. Here, we analyze Chang’E-5 lunar soil samples, revealing polycyclic aromatic concentrations of 5.
Guangcai Zhong, Xin Yi, Shutao Gao, Shizhen Zhao, Yangzhi Mo, Lele Tian, Buqing Xu, Fu Wang, Yuhong Liao, Tengfei Li, Liangliang Wu, Yunpeng Wang, Yingjun Chen, Yue Xu, Sanyuan Zhu, Linbo Yu, Jun Li, Ping’an Peng, Gan Zhang   +18 more
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Evidence of water on the lunar surface from Chang’E-5 in-situ spectra and returned samples [PDF]

Nature Communications, 2022
Laboratory analysis of returned Chang’E-5 samples from the lunar surface show their hydroxyl contents to be on the weak end of lunar hydration features.
Jianjun Liu, Bin Liu, Xin Ren, Chunlai Li, Rong Shu, Lin Guo, Songzheng Yu, Qin Zhou, Dawei Liu, Xingguo Zeng, Xingye Gao, Guangliang Zhang, Wei Yan, Hongbo Zhang, Lihui Jia, Shifeng Jin, Chunhua Xu, Xiangjin Deng, Jianfeng Xie, Jianfeng Yang, Changning Huang, Wei Zuo, Yan Su, Weibin Wen, Ziyuan Ouyang   +24 more
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Chang’E-5 radar reveals fast regolith production at landing site [PDF]

Scientific Reports
Lunar regolith is an unconsolidated fine-grained layer overlaying on the entire lunar surface, formed by continuous impact and space weathering processes.
Gang Yu, Yong Pang, Menglong Xu, Yuqi Qian   +3 more
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Million-year solar wind irradiation recorded in chang’E-5 and chang’E-6 samples [PDF]

Nature Communications
The long-term effects of Earth’s magnetosphere on solar wind (SW) irradiation asymmetry between the lunar nearside and farside, and their implications for space weathering processes, remain poorly characterized.
Renrui Liu, Xiaoping Zhang, Sizhe Zhao, Yi Xu, Pengwei Luo, Yang Li, Xiaojia Zeng, Chenkun Sun, Ronghua Pang, Chen Li, Xiongyao Li, Lianghai Xie, Zhiguo Meng, Qiugang Zong, Chi Wang   +14 more
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Spectral interpretation of late-stage mare basalt mineralogy unveiled by Chang’E-5 samples [PDF]

Nature Communications, 2022
Laboratory spectroscopic and X-ray diffraction analyses on the Chang’E-5 lunar soil samples have demonstrated that the spectral features of lunar late-stage mare basalts are representative of iron-rich high-Ca pyroxene rather than olivine.
Dawei Liu, Xing Wang, Jianjun Liu, Bin Liu, Xin Ren, Yuan Chen, Zhaopeng Chen, Hongbo Zhang, Guangliang Zhang, Qin Zhou, Zhoubin Zhang, Qiang Fu, Chunlai Li   +12 more
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Sub-microscopic magnetite and metallic iron particles formed by eutectic reaction in Chang’E-5 lunar soil [PDF]

Nature Communications, 2022
Magnetite is rarely present on the Moon. Here the authors report the magnetite formed by eutectic reaction during the impact process in Chang’E-5 lunar soil, and the potential contribution of this magnetite formation to magnetic anomalies on the Moon.
Zhuang Guo, Chen Li, Yang Li, Yuanyun Wen, Yanxue Wu, Bojun Jia, Kairui Tai, Xiaojia Zeng, Xiongyao Li, Jianzhong Liu, Ziyuan Ouyang   +10 more
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Chang’E-5 samples reveal high water content in lunar minerals [PDF]

Nature Communications, 2022
Lunar soils returned by China’s Chang’E−5 (CE5) mission record the unique information of solar wind essential to understanding the preservation and distribution of lunar surficial water.
Chuanjiao Zhou, Hong Tang, Xiongyao Li, Xiaojia Zeng, Bing Mo, Wen Yu, Yanxue Wu, Xiandi Zeng, Jianzhong Liu, Yuanyun Wen   +9 more
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Saturation of space weathering in shaping lunar regolith particle morphology [PDF]

Nature Communications
The lunar mare regolith preserves tripartite records of volcanism, impacting, and space weathering. However, previous studies based on limited soil particle numbers were hindered by issues of sample representativeness.
Ao Luo, Yifei Cui, Guodong Wang, Jiayan Nie, Chuansheng Xu, Zihan Zhang, Jun Zhang, Yang Li, Qi Zhao, Huaiyu He   +9 more
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Long-term reduced lunar mantle revealed by Chang’e-5 basalt [PDF]

Nature Communications
The redox state of a planetary mantle affects its thermal evolution. The redox evolution of lunar mantle, however, remains unclear due to limited oxygen fugacity (fO2) constraints from young lunar samples.
Huijuan Zhang, Wei Yang, Di Zhang, Hengci Tian, Renhao Ruan, Sen Hu, Yi Chen, Hejiu Hui, Yanhao Lin, Ross N. Mitchell, Di Zhang, Shitou Wu, Lihui Jia, Lixin Gu, Yangting Lin, XianHua Li, Fuyuan Wu   +16 more
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Geological characteristics of Chang’E-6 landing area in micro-scale unveiled by new observation data [PDF]

Nature Communications
Chang’E-6 mission successfully achieved humanity’s first sample return from the farside of the Moon. Here, we report a high-precision terrain dataset with millimeter-to-decimeter spatial resolution around the CE-6 landing site. Based on this dataset, the
Wei Yan, Xingguo Zeng, Xin Ren, Wangli Chen, Xingye Gao, Wei Zuo, Bin Liu, Zhoubin Zhang, Qiang Fu, Jianjun Liu, Chunlai Li   +10 more
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