The Chang'E-5 (CE5) mission has demonstrated that lunar volcanism was still active until
two billion years ago, much younger than the previous isotopically dated lunar basalts. How …

Abstract The Chang'E 5 (CE-5) samples represent the youngest mare basalt ever known
and provide an access into the late lunar evolution. Recent studies have revealed that CE-5 …

The Moon is traditionally thought to have coalesced from the debris ejected by a giant
impact onto the early Earth. However, such models struggle to explain the similar isotopic …

The Earth-like planets and moons in our solar system have iron-rich cores, silicate mantles,
and a basaltic crust. Differentiated icy moons can have a core and a mantle and an outer …

Sample return missions have provided the basis for understanding the thermochemical
evolution of the Moon. Mare basalt sources are likely to have originated from partial melting …

In terrestrial magmas titanium is predominantly tetravalent (Ti4+), in contrast, lunar magmas
are more reduced (IW-1) and hence approximately 10% of their bulk Ti content is trivalent …

Fifteen experiments at 1 atm pressure and 1400° C have been conducted to determine
partition coefficients between olivine and silicate melt (D Ol-m elt) of the first-row transition …

High-pressure, high-temperature experiments have been conducted at deep lunar mantle
conditions to constrain the garnet stability field. Using the Taylor Whole Moon composition …

A centimeter-sized fragment of dunite, the first recognized fragment of Moon mantle material,
has been discovered in the lunar highlands breccia meteorite Northwest Africa (NWA) …

This study presents the results of high pressure and temperature experiments to investigate
the mineral–melt trace element partitioning behaviour for minerals predicted to have formed …