ABSTRACT The Chang'e-5 (CE-5) mission, the first return of lunar samples to Earth since
the Apollo and Luna missions more than 44 years ago, landed on one of the youngest mare …

The Chinese spacecraft Chang'e-5 (CE-5) landed on the northern Ocean Procellarum and
returned 1,731 grams of regolith. The CE-5 regolith is composed mostly of fragments of …

Lunar soil is a fine mixture of local rocks and exotic components. The bulk-rock chemical
composition of the newly returned Chang'E-5 (CE-5) lunar soil was studied to understand its …

Lunar impact glasses can provide important information on the bulk compositions of their
sources and the impact history of the Moon. Here, we report the chemical composition of fifty …

The history of mare volcanism critically informs the thermal evolution of the Moon. However,
young volcanic eruptions are poorly constrained by remote observations and limited …

The lunar basalt samples returned by the Chang'e-5 mission erupted about 2.0 billion years
ago during the late period of the Moon's secular cooling. The conditions of mantle melting in …

This study focuses on using the chemical compositions of plagioclase to further investigate
the petrogenesis of Chang'E-5 young mare basalts and constrain its parental melt …

Young lunar mare basalts are recent volcanic products distributed mainly in the Procellarum-
KREEP-Terrane. However, these young basalts were never investigated in situ until 2013 by …

Abstract The Chang'e‐5 (CE‐5) materials represent the youngest returned lunar samples.
We performed a detailed Raman spectroscopic survey (1259‐point Raman modal analysis) …

The western maria of lunar near-side are widely covered with late-stage mare basalts. Due
to the lack of returned samples, the mineralogy of the late-stage basalts was previously …