New lunar samples reveal more recent volcanic activity on the moon
CNN
Lunar rocks collected by the Chinese Chang'e-5 mission have been dated to about 2 billion years old, filling a critical chronology gap in the moon's history. The rocks also show that volcanic activity on the moon was occuring more recently than previously thought.
The mission, named after the mythical Chinese goddess of the moon, brought back the first fresh lunar samples in more than 40 years to Earth later that month.
An international team of scientists have studied the rocks and delivered one of the first results from the mission: the moon was volcanically active more recently than previously thought. A study detailing the findings published Thursday in the journal Science.
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