Solidified lava vestiges brought back by a Chinese mission were 1 billion years younger than material acquired by other missions decades, according to an article published in the journal science, which suggests the moon cooled later than thought. The reported samples of American and Soviet missions had more than 2.9 billion years. Samples acquired on China’s Chang’E-5 Mission last year – old around 1960000000 years – suggests volcanic activity persisted longer than expected. Last December, the Chinese probe without crew touched on an already UNVISITED part of a massive lava plain, the Oceanus Procellarum or “Oceans of Storms”. About 1731 lunar sample grams were then recovered and brought back to the ground. One of the main objectives of Chang’E-5, the name of the Chinese mythical goddess of the moon, was how long the moon remained volcanic active.
“The Oceanus Procellarum region of the moon is characterized by high concentrations of potassium, thorium and uranium, the elements that generate heat by long-term radioactive decay and may have undergone long magmatic activity on the visible face of The moon, “wrote the years of the article authors, including Chinese researchers The article says that the heat source for magmatic activity could also be due to what is called “tidal heating”, or the heat generated by the gravitational tug and traction of the earth.
The Mission Chang’E-5 makes China’s third country to have ever recovered lunar samples after the United States and the Soviet Union, 45, has launched the last successful mission to acquire equipment from the moon China Plans to launch Chang’E-6 and Chang’e-7 lunar missions, also without crew, over the next five years to explore the southern pole of the moon.