By Leah Crane
Chang’e 5 landing dwelling CNSA/Lunar Exploration and Apartment Engineering Center
The moon would possibly were volcanically active extra recently than we thought. Analysis of lunar discipline matter brought help by China’s Chang’e 5 spacecraft has shown that the magmatic rocks where it landed are lower than 2 billion years worn, indicating that the history of the moon is extra subtle than researchers realised.
The discipline where Chang’e 5 touched down, known as Oceanus Procellarum, modified into anticipated to have comparatively new rocks, however we didn’t know appropriate how new. Researchers analysed two microscopic samples the mission returned and came at some stage in …
