Nature Communications (Jun 2022)

Evidence of water on the lunar surface from Chang’E-5 in-situ spectra and returned samples

  • Jianjun Liu,
  • Bin Liu,
  • Xin Ren,
  • Chunlai Li,
  • Rong Shu,
  • Lin Guo,
  • Songzheng Yu,
  • Qin Zhou,
  • Dawei Liu,
  • Xingguo Zeng,
  • Xingye Gao,
  • Guangliang Zhang,
  • Wei Yan,
  • Hongbo Zhang,
  • Lihui Jia,
  • Shifeng Jin,
  • Chunhua Xu,
  • Xiangjin Deng,
  • Jianfeng Xie,
  • Jianfeng Yang,
  • Changning Huang,
  • Wei Zuo,
  • Yan Su,
  • Weibin Wen,
  • Ziyuan Ouyang

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-30807-5
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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Laboratory analysis of returned Chang’E-5 samples from the lunar surface show their hydroxyl contents to be on the weak end of lunar hydration features.