Defining the age of the Moon has proven to be an elusive task because it requires reliably
dating lunar samples using radiometric isotopic systems that record fractionation of parent …

Volcanism is a fundamental process in the geological evolution of the Moon, providing clues
to the composition and structure of the mantle, the location and duration of interior melting …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Abstract Chang'e-5, China's first lunar sample return mission, is targeted to land in northern
Oceanus Procellarum, within a region selected on the basis of 1) its location away from the …

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 …

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 …

In light of global remotely sensed data, the igneous crust of the Moon can no longer be
viewed as a simple, globally stratified cumulus structure, composed of a flotation upper crust …

Microorganisms are employed to mine economically important elements from rocks,
including the rare earth elements (REEs), used in electronic industries and alloy production …