Lunar Evolution in Light of the Chang'e-5 Returned Samples

FY Wu, QL Li, Y Chen, S Hu, ZY Yue… - Annual Review of …, 2024 - annualreviews.org
The Chinese spacecraft Chang'e-5 (CE-5) landed on the northern Ocean Procellarum and
returned 1,731 grams of regolith. The CE-5 regolith is composed mostly of fragments of …

[BOOK][B] Stable isotope geochemistry

J Hoefs, J Hoefs - 2009 - Springer
The nine editions of Stable Isotope Geochemistry have appeared over a time span of nearly
50 years. The first edition (1973) appeared as a slim book of 135 pages. Due to the rapid …

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 Tartèse… - 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 …

Principles of stable isotope geochemistry

Z Sharp - 2017 - digitalrepository.unm.edu
Abstract Principles of Stable Isotope Geochemistry is written as a textbook to accompany a
one semester course in Stable Isotope Geochemistry. There are 13 chapters, each dealing …

Lunar resources

IA Crawford, M Anand, S Barber… - … in Mineralogy and …, 2023 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
It has long been recognised (eg, Ehricke 1985; Spudis 1996, 2016; Duke et al. 2006;
Benaroya 2010; Kornuta et al. 2019) that the Moon has the potential to play a pivotal role in …

Constraining the evolutionary history of the Moon and the inner solar system: a case for new returned lunar samples

R Tartèse, M Anand, J Gattacceca, KH Joy… - Space Science …, 2019 - Springer
The Moon is the only planetary body other than the Earth for which samples have been
collected in situ by humans and robotic missions and returned to Earth. Scientific …

A melt inclusion study on volatile abundances in the lunar mantle

P Ni, Y Zhang, S Chen, J Gagnon - Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 2019 - Elsevier
Earth's Moon was thought to be highly depleted in volatiles due to its formation by a giant
impact. Over the last decade, however, evidence has been found in apatites, lunar volcanic …

Lunar cumulate mantle overturn: a model constrained by ilmenite rheology

H Li, N Zhang, Y Liang, B Wu, NJ Dygert… - Journal of …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Lunar cumulate mantle overturn has been proposed to explain the abundances of TiO2 and
heat‐producing elements (U, Th, and K) in the source region of lunar basalts. Ilmenite …

Origin of the Moon

RM Canup, K Righter, N Dauphas… - … in Mineralogy and …, 2023 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
The Earth–Moon system is unusual in several respects. The Moon is roughly ¼ the radius of
the Earth—a larger satellite-to-planet size ratio than all known satellites other than Pluto's …

Inefficient volatile loss from the Moon-forming disk: Reconciling the giant impact hypothesis and a wet Moon

M Nakajima, DJ Stevenson - Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 2018 - Elsevier
Abstract The Earth's Moon is thought to have formed from a circumterrestrial disk generated
by a giant impact between the proto-Earth and an impactor approximately 4.5 billion years …