Discovery for the first time!Named "Chang'e Stone"

On September 9, the National Space Administration and National Atomic Energy Agency jointly released the latest scientific achievements in Chang'e 5 in Beijing: Chinese scientists found new minerals on the moon for the first time and named it "Chang'e Stone".The mineral is the sixth new mineral found on the moon, and my country has become the third country in the world to discover new minerals in the moon.

It is reported that "Chang'e Stone" is a kind of phosphate mineral, which is columnar crystal, which exists in the moon's basalt granules.Innovative team of China Nuclear Group Nuclear Industry Beijing Geological Research Institute, through a series of high -tech means such as X -ray diffraction, in the 140,000 -month sample particles, separate a single -crystal particles of about 10 microns, and successfully interpretedIts crystal structure.The International Mineral Society (IMA) New Mineral Classification and Naming Committee (CNMNC) voted for voting, which was confirmed to be a new mineral.

Source: People's Daily Client, China Youth Daily

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