In this chapter, we present and discuss in detail current and novel advances in our
understanding of the processes that drove primordial differentiation of the Moon. This …

Alkaline igneous complexes host deposits of rare earth elements (REE), which represent
one of the most economically important resources of heavy REE and Yttrium (Y). The hosts …

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 …

The Chang'E-5 (CE5) mission has demonstrated that lunar volcanism was still active until
two billion years ago, much younger than the previous isotopically dated lunar basalts. How …

The current state of understanding of the lunar interior is the sum of nearly four decades of
work and a range of exploration programs spanning that same time period. Missions of the …

The 182Hf–182W systematics of meteoritic and planetary samples provide firm constraints
on the chronology of the accretion and earliest evolution of asteroids and terrestrial planets …

As with all science, our continually develo** concepts of lunar evolution are firmly tied to
both new types of observations and the integration of these observations to the known pool …

Gamma ray spectroscopy data acquired by Lunar Prospector are used to determine global
maps of the elemental composition of the lunar surface. Maps of the abundance of major …

Water plays a critical role in the evolution of planetary bodies, and determination of the
amount and sources of lunar water has profound implications for our understanding of the …

The absolute ages of cratered surfaces in the inner solar system, including Mars, are derived
by extrapolation from the impact flux curve for the Moon which has been calibrated on the …