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Exclusive | Hopes dim for China and US space agencies to exchange moon samples

Cs news8 months ago02 mins

Hopes are fading that the US will respond to a Chinese offer to exchange moon samples, with no word yet from Nasa on what it could swap. Space officials in the two countries have been negotiating Chinese access to Apollo lunar samples in exchange for Chang’e-5 samples being loaned to US scientists. But while China…

What lies on the moon’s mysterious far side? China’s Chang’e-6 samples give first signs

Cs news10 months ago02 mins

For the first time in history, Chinese scientists have revealed what kind of material lies on the far side of the moon – a mixture of basalts and foreign ejecta largely different from the previous Chinese-collected near side samples of mostly basaltic volcanic rocks. Researchers said the Chang’e-6 mission samples “may result from the mixing…