New Lunar Samples Challenge the "Late Heavy Bombardment"

New Lunar Samples Challenge the "Late Heavy Bombardment"
By Andy Tomaswick (https://ift.tt/AHa9egW)

Results are coming out from the samples returned by China’s Chang’e-6 sample return mission to the far side of the Moon. They offer our first close-up look at the geology and history of the far side, and a recent paper published in Science Advances from researchers at the Chinese Academy of Sciences has very interesting insights about the impact history of the Moon itself, and even some for the solar system at large.

February 17, 2026 at 08:16PM
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