Scientific objectives and payload configuration of the Chang'E-7 mission

C Wang, Y Jia, C Xue, Y Lin, J Liu, X Fu… - National Science …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
As the cornerstone mission of the fourth phase of the Chinese Lunar Exploration Program,
Chang'E-7 (CE-7) was officially approved, and implementation started in 2022, including a …

Lunar resources: A review

IA Crawford - Progress in Physical Geography, 2015 - journals.sagepub.com
There is growing interest in the possibility that the resource base of the Solar System might
in future be used to supplement the economic resources of our own planet. As the Earth's …

Age and composition of young basalts on the Moon, measured from samples returned by Chang'e-5

X Che, A Nemchin, D Liu, T Long, C Wang… - Science, 2021 - science.org
Orbital data indicate that the youngest volcanic units on the Moon are basalt lavas in
Oceanus Procellarum, a region with high levels of the heat-producing elements potassium …

Non-KREEP origin for Chang'e-5 basalts in the Procellarum KREEP Terrane

HC Tian, H Wang, Y Chen, W Yang, Q Zhou, C Zhang… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
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 …

A dry lunar mantle reservoir for young mare basalts of Chang'e-5

S Hu, H He, J Ji, Y Lin, H Hui, M Anand, R Tartese… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
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 …

Landing site of the Chang'e-6 lunar farside sample return mission from the Apollo basin

X Zeng, D Liu, Y Chen, Q Zhou, X Ren, Z Zhang… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
To address questions about the multiple lunar nearside–farside dichotomies and to provide
new insights into both the early impact history of the Solar System and the geological …

[HTML][HTML] Bulk compositions of the Chang'E-5 lunar soil: Insights into chemical homogeneity, exotic addition, and origin of landing site basalts

K Zong, Z Wang, J Li, Q He, Y Li, H Becker… - … et Cosmochimica Acta, 2022 - Elsevier
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 …

Functionalization of C(sp3)–H bonds using a transient directing group

FL Zhang, K Hong, TJ Li, H Park, JQ Yu - Science, 2016 - science.org
Proximity-driven metalation has been extensively exploited to achieve reactivity and
selectivity in carbon–hydrogen (C–H) bond activation. Despite the substantial improvement …

China's Chang'e-5 landing site: Geology, stratigraphy, and provenance of materials

Y Qian, L **ao, Q Wang, JW Head, R Yang… - Earth and Planetary …, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract China's Chang'e-5 (CE-5) mission, the first lunar sample return mission since 1976,
landed at 43.06° N, 51.92° W on Dec. 1, 2020, in Northern Oceanus Procellarum. CE-5 …

Nature of the lunar far-side samples returned by the Chang'E-6 mission

C Li, H Hu, MF Yang, J Liu, Q Zhou, X Ren… - National Science …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
ABSTRACT The Chang'E-6 (CE-6) mission successfully achieved return of the first samples
from the far side of the Moon. The sampling site of CE-6 is located in the South Pole-Aitken …