China brought back to Earth strange debris from the "unknown world"
China's Chang'e-5 spacecraft has brought back to Earth unexpected treasures for science from the celestial body that mankind thought they understood quite well. Analyzing more than 3,000 samples of regolith – a mineral-rich hydrated soil – that Chang’e-5 brought back from the Moon, a team of scientists led by Dr Xiaojia Zeng, Professor Xiongyao Li and Professor Jianzhong Liu from the Institute of Geochemistry of the Chinese Academy of Sciences have found seven strange clusters of igneous rocks, believed to be ejected by collisions. According to SciTech Daily, by comparing them with lunar rocks returned by the US Apollo mission decades ago, researchers have identified three types of igneous rocks that exhibit lithological and structural features. abnormal. The location of the Chinese ship landing and the strange specimens it brought back – Photo: Chinese Academy of Sciences A titanium-rich vitrophyric may represent a new type...