Isotopic and compositional constraints on the source of basalt collected from the lunar far side.

• Tác giả: Yiyi Ban, Xiaochao Che, Runlong Fan, Zengsheng Li, Dunyi Liu, Tao Long, Alexander Nemchin, Le Qiao, Shiwen Xie, Chun Yang
• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• Thông tin xuất bản: United States : Science (New York, N.Y.) , 2025
• Bộ sưu tập: NCBI
• ID: 703101

Tóm tắt

Volcanism on the Moon has produced surface basalt deposits, which record lunar interior processes. The Chang'e-6 mission retrieved samples from the South Pole-Aitken basin (SPA) on the Moon's far side. We analyze basalt fragments collected by Chang'e-6, finding their composition resembles low-Ti basalts previously sampled by the Apollo missions. U-Pb dating indicates a basalt age of 2823.0 ± 5.9 Ma and a source