A display exhibits footages of spacecraft for Chang’e-5 Mission, throughout an occasion on China’s lunar exploration program, on the National Astronomical Observatories of Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), in Beijing, China, January 18, 2021. (REUTERS/File)
China‘s Chang’e-5 lander has efficiently introduced on Earth water trapped inside tiny beads of glass scattered throughout the moon, scientists have confirmed in a brand new research.
According to Nature Geoscience journal, scientists have discovered water inside glass beads which had been “hand-picked from a lunar soil sample scooped by the CE5 (Chang’e-5) lander robotic arm.”
Chang’e-5 was China’s fifth lunar exploration mission.
“A total of 117 individual spherical glass beads were characterized using field-emission scanning electron microscopy (SEM), electron probe microanalyzer (EPMA), and Raman spectroscopy,” stated the research revealed Monday.
Scientists have studied the presence of water on the moon for many years.
“Today, there is little doubt that most of the Moon’s surface harbors water in one form or another. However, the origin(s) of this lunar surface water and its spatial distribution and evolution during regolith gardening remain largely unknown, despite key implications for future lunar surface exploration and for a better understanding the (sub)surface water reservoir and processing on Solar System airless bodies,” the research defined.
China launched Chang’e-5 on the moon in December 2020 which Beijing had described as “a major step towards obtaining the youngest lunar samples so far collected and delivering them to earth.”
The lander was tasked to gather samples from the ascent car and ship them to earth round mid-December.
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