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China's Moon Mission Chang'e 6 Found Something Totally Unexpected

Chang'e-6 returned far-side lunar fragments containing rare olivine-bearing meteorite material resembling pre-solar-system asteroid dust that can trace volatile delivery to Earth and Moon.
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3 weeks ago

There's Something Really Strange About the Moon's Largest Crater, Where NASA Astronauts Are Due to Land

As detailed in a new paper published in the journal Nature, the more than 1,200-mile crater appears to have been the result of a glancing, southward blow - and not a head-on asteroid impact, as previously thought. The findings could help explain why the Moon's far side is riddled with large craters, while the more explored near side is relatively smooth. And they could also have "important implications for the upcoming human exploration of the lunar south pole" by NASA's Artemis program, the researchers wrote.
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Southward impact excavated magma ocean at the lunar South Pole-Aitken basin - Nature

The SPA impact excavated ilmenite-bearing cumulates and KREEP, constraining the timing of magma ocean crystallization and the basin's age.
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