ABSTRACT The Chang'e-5 (CE-5) mission, the first return of lunar samples to Earth since
the Apollo and Luna missions more than 44 years ago, landed on one of the youngest mare …

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 …

The formation and distribution of lunar surficial water remains ambiguous. Here, we show
the prominence of water (OH/H2O) attributed to solar wind implantation on the uppermost …

The presence and distribution of water on the Moon are fundamental to our understanding of
the Earth–Moon system. Despite extensive laboratory research and remote sensing …

The western maria of lunar near-side are widely covered with late-stage mare basalts. Due
to the lack of returned samples, the mineralogy of the late-stage basalts was previously …

This review describes the principles and summarizes the challenges of analytical methods
based on optical emission spectroscopy (OES) in space applications, with a particular focus …

Water is critical in the future of space exploration and development of planetary bodies.
Benchtop nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) is a geophysical measurement technique with …

Abstract Chang'E-5 (CE-5) landed in the northeast of the Oceanus Procellarum and
successfully returned∼ 1.73 kg lunar samples from a distinctively young mare basalt unit …

Water on the surface of the Moon is a potentially vital resource for future lunar bases and
longer-range space exploration. Effective use of the resource depends on developing an …

China accomplished a historic milestone in 2020 when the mission Chang'e-5 (CE-5) to the
Lunar's surface was successfully launched. An extraordinary component of this mission is …