First 'Youngest' Moon Samples by China's Chang'e 5 Mission to be Displayed from March

China has shared the first images of the first moon samples from its Chang’e 5 mission that returned in December last year with 3.81 lbs of soil and rocks from our natural satellite. The container is called ‘zun’, which is shaped like a ritual Chinese wine vessel holding the lunar dust in a hollow sphere representing both the moon and the Chang’s re-entry capsule. Newly surfaced images show Chinese president Xi Jinping congratulating Chang’e 5 space scientists and engineers at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on February 22.The Chang’s-5 took off in November last year atop the Long March-5 rocket from the Wenchang launch site in Hainan province and is the first to return with lunar samples. James Head, professor of geological sciences at Brown University, explained the region is ‘very unusual and nowhere near where we landed before’.He added that these samples will help in understanding ‘how young the moon had volcanic activity,which is an indication of how recently it has been geologically active, a critical question in the evolution of the planets’.