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China's Moon probe launches back toward Earth with sample from far side of lunar surface
Chang'e 5 landed near a region of the Moon visible to Earth known as the Ocean of Storms. Studies of those samples found that the rocks collected were about 2 billion years old. As part of the ...
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Scientists confirm the Moon once had a huge ocean made of lava
The Moon was once covered in a vast magma ocean, scientists have confirmed from samples collected by a Chinese spacecraft. A lunar lander, called Chang'e 6, landed on the little-explored far side ...
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Scientists Say the Moon Was Once a Giant Ocean of Molten Rock
China’s Chang’e 6 mission uncovers evidence of a molten lunar magma ocean and a violent ancient impact.
‘Like going to the moon’: Why this is the world’s most terrifying ocean crossing
“The Southern Ocean is very stormy in general (but) in the Drake you’re really squeezing (the water) between the Antarctic ...