Lunar rocks collected by the Chinese Chang'e-5 mission were dated to about 2 billion years old, filling a critical chronology gap in the moon's history. The rocks also show volcanic activity on the moon was occurring more recently than previously thought.
When its Chang'e-5 mission landed on the moon in December 2020, China became only the third country to collect lunar rocks and soil.
The mission, named after the mythical Chinese goddess of the moon, brought back the first fresh lunar samples in more than 40 years to Earth later that month.An international team of scientists have studied the rocks and delivered one of the first results from the mission: the moon was volcanically active more recently than previously thought. A study detailing the findings published Thursday in the journal Science.
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