Theory and observations point to the occurrence of magma ponds or oceans in the early
evolution of terrestrial planets and in many early-accreting planetesimals. The apparent …

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 Moon has a magmatic and thermal history that is distinct from that of the terrestrial
planets. Radioisotope dating of lunar samples suggests that most lunar basaltic magmatism …

Mare volcanics on the Moon are the key record of thermo-chemical evolution throughout
most of lunar history,–. Young mare basalts—mainly distributed in a region rich in …

Forty-five years after the Apollo and Luna missions returned lunar samples, China's Chang'E-
5 (CE-5) mission collected new samples from the mid-latitude region in the northeastern …

The distribution of water in the Moon's interior carries implications for the origin of the Moon,
the crystallization of the lunar magma ocean and the duration of lunar volcanism. The …

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 mare basalts provide a probe to study the magmatic and thermal evolution of the
Moon. The Chang'e-5 (CE-5) mission returned samples from a young and hitherto …

Spacecraft-to-spacecraft tracking observations from the Gravity Recovery and Interior
Laboratory (GRAIL) have been used to construct a gravitational field of the Moon to …

Over 60 years of spacecraft exploration has revealed that the Earth's Moon is characterized
by a lunar crust dominated by the mineral plagioclase, overlying a more mafic (richer in iron …