Articles for Lunar Scientists

Scientists find molecular water in moon mineral
5 months ago

Scientists find molecular water in moon mineral

China Daily  

By YAN DONGJIE | China Daily | Updated: 2024-07-24 09:40 A team of Chinese scientists has made a groundbreaking discovery: molecular water locked within a mineral in lunar soil samples collected by the Chang'e 5 mission. China's first unmanned lunar sample return mission saw the Chang'e 5 probe collect basalt lunar soil samples from a high-latitude region of the moon, …

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New Moon research yields tantalizing clues about its geological history
10 months, 2 weeks ago

New Moon research yields tantalizing clues about its geological history

Salon  

The Moon has a long, chaotic geological history almost as old as Earth itself. As the study itself explained, the finding of high pressure silica polymorphs in that sample "highlights the potential of multiplying high-pressure minerals in lunar materials, which could provide new information about impact processes on the Moon and other planetary bodies in the early Solar System." "New …

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Pragyan rover discovers sulphur at moon’s south pole | Explained
1 year, 3 months ago

Pragyan rover discovers sulphur at moon’s south pole | Explained

The Hindu  

In an exciting milestone for lunar scientists around the globe, India’s Chandrayaan-3 lander touched down 600 km from the south pole of the moon on August 23, 2023. While the data from Chandrayaan-3’s rover, named Pragyan, or “wisdom” in Sanskrit, showed the lunar soil contains expected elements such as iron, titanium, aluminum and calcium, it also showed an unexpected surprise …

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70-degree Celsius moon surface temperature was not expected: Scientists
1 year, 3 months ago

70-degree Celsius moon surface temperature was not expected: Scientists

Hindustan Times  

As Chandrayaan 3 on Sunday sent its first findings on the lunar surface temperature of the south pole, scientists said the high of 70-degree Celsius temperature near the surface was not expected. The graph Isro tweeted on lunar surface temperature based on Chandrayaan 3's data. The temperature variation on the lunar surface -- around the south pole -- is from …

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Chandrayaan-2 gauges sodium content on Moon’s surface
2 years, 2 months ago

Chandrayaan-2 gauges sodium content on Moon’s surface

The Hindu  

Scientists from Indian Space Research Organisation have mapped out the global distribution of sodium on the Moon’s surface. This is the first effort to provide a global-scale measurement of sodium on the lunar surface using X-ray fluorescent spectra. Sodium can be used as a tracer of the volatile history of the moon,” explains the scientists from the Space Astronomy group …

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Scientists successfully grow plants in moon soil for first time
2 years, 7 months ago

Scientists successfully grow plants in moon soil for first time

The Hindu  

Scientists for the first time have grown seeds in the soil from the moon - samples retrieved during NASA missions in 1969 and 1972 - in an achievement that heralds the promise of using earthly plants to support human outposts on other worlds. Researchers said on May 12 they planted seeds of a diminutive flowering weed called Arabidopsis thaliana in …

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