New source of lunar water discovered by China’s Chang’e-5 Moon lander
E&T
MARCH 27, 2023
China’s Chang’e-5, which touched down on the Moon in December 2020, found water at its landing site using spectral reflectance measurements of soil and rocks. Now, researchers at the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) found that impact glass beads in Chang’e-5’s lunar soils also contain some water.
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