Professor Mahesh Anand, an Indian-origin scientist in the UK, obtained lunar soil from China's Chang'e 6 mission. This ...

The types of minerals and glass found in lunar soil depend on many factors ... After determining variability in realistic samples, the researchers will probe how the composition of dirt can affect the ...

Lunar surface characteristics—mineral composition, geology, and environment—are vital for lunar science. Spectral imagers ...

Chinese researchers analyzed the first-ever soil samples returned from the far side of the moon, but further samples will be ...

They discovered that the composition of lunar soil, also known as regolith ... Plagioclase is an aluminum-bearing mineral, while ferrous oxide is an iron compound. "Grain size differences might ...

it is useful to review the mineralogical composition of common rocks that make up the soil parent material (Table 1). Primary minerals form at elevated temperatures from cooling magma during the ...

BEIJING--Chinese scientists have discovered a “brand-new method” of producing large quantities of water using lunar soil ... that the minerals in this ‘moon soil’ contain large amounts ...

BEIJING, September 9. /TASS/. Chinese scientists came across a previously unknown mineral in lunar soil samples, brought to the Earth by the Chang’e-5 spacecraft, China’s Central Television ...

A new study by the Physical Research Laboratory (PRL), Ahmedabad, has found the potential presence of primitive lunar ... the chemical composition of the early materials (rocks/minerals) present ...