Scientists learning lunar soil from China’s Chang’e-6 mission have found uncommon meteorite fragments that point out Earth and the Moon had been bombarded by a water-rich asteroid greater than beforehand believed. The Moon’s far facet Chang’e-6 delivered the first-ever samples from the floor of the far facet in June 2024. A current examine of two grams of this mud found microscopic olivine-bearing clasts which have the identical chemical signature as CI carbonaceous chondrites. Such delicate area rocks seldom make it by way of our personal environment making a discovery on the Moon essential.
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