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 …

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 …

This study focuses on using the chemical compositions of plagioclase to further investigate
the petrogenesis of Chang'E-5 young mare basalts and constrain its parental melt …

Mass-dependent stable isotopic variations recorded in lunar samples provide novel
resolution to the formation and differentiation history of the Moon. In this study, we report …

Eleven isobaric experimental series simulate the fractional crystallization of 1,150 km deep
lunar magma ocean. Crystallization begins at 1,850° C with olivine (to 32 per cent solidified …

Lunar meteorites are fragments of consolidated rock that were ejected from the Moon when
it was struck by an impacting asteroid or comet, entered an Earth-crossing orbit, and …

The evolution and compositional structure of the lunar mantle has been extensively modeled
but insufficiently constrained by observations. Here, we identify and characterize mantle …

We report bulk composition data for 235 stones of~ 77 lunar meteorites from northern Africa
and 33 lunar meteorites from elsewhere. About 27% of the African meteorites are typical …

We investigate lunar troctolite petrogenesis with a series of forward models. We simulate the
cumulate mantle overturn hypothesis by modeling the adiabatic ascent and decompression …

Plagioclase in lunar anorthositic crust have rare earth element (REE) patterns and Eu
abundances which cannot be directly produced by lunar magma ocean (LMO) solidification …