Changesite-(Y) is a phosphate mineral in columnar crystal found in lunar basalt particles.

From the 140,000 lunar sample particles, researchers from the Beijing Research Institute of Uranium Geology identified, analyzed, and interpreted a single crystal particle with a radius of around 10 microns using sophisticated techniques, including X-ray diffraction.

China's Commission on New Minerals, Nomenclature and Classification (CNMNC) of the International Mineralogical Association (IMA) has classified Changesite-(Y) as a new mineral.

It is the sixth new mineral identified by humans on the Moon, and China has joined the US and Russia as the three countries in the world to do so.

In 2020, China's Chang'e-5 mission returned lunar samples to Earth for the first time in over 40 years, weighing roughly 1,731 grams. The newly discovered lunar mineral was also retrieved from the Moon.


https://interestingengineering.com/science/...mineral-on-moon

New mineral only.
Not new element like iron man or russia did with the radioactive stuff..

This post has been edited by judas: Sep 10 2022, 09:17 AM

But but but moon landing is fake.

that why amoricon rushed to go back moon to pick up some sand, at least.

Got oil or not?

Will they found nazi mining helium 3 at dark side of moon?

Later US will sanction China from going to the moon.

americans picked up more moon rocks than any other countries did la.

Why didnt apollo found this


Owai

More importantly, what is the use of this new mineral?

Artemis not yet sampai? kek

then why didn't they find this?

to be fair i don't think this mineral will be present in every sites of the moon.

china sampled the far side of the moon while US sampled different sites of the moon.

it's puzzling

i don't think i've ever seen anything quite like this before

Pls enjoy seeing the moon before chayna make it extinct

china is already testing out moon drilling drones in their desert, couple of new moon projects are ongoing. heavy rockets, space agriculture, water regeneration, moon base structure as well. lots of new tech, hopefully they get 10 of millions people to work in this field, definitely will speed up the process

the moon is not as near as being illustrated

Can plant trees with phosphate

yea its weird right unless...