China Reveals MAJOR NEW Discovery On The Moon!

China Reveals MAJOR NEW Discovery On The Moon!

The cratered world of the Moon is the next big target for countries from across the world, as they race to not just explore it but also push forward into deep space. China, at the moment, is among the top competitors in the race and a new discovery is acing its chances.
Recently, Chinese researchers have discovered a new mineral that has not been found on Earth so far. This diamond-shaped mineral has been found in the samples returned from the Moon by the Chang'e-5 lunar probe and this discovery is truly mind blowing for the rest of the world. So, let’s talk about it!
Hello everyone! Welcome to Space World. In today’s video we are going to talk about a major new discovery on moon made by China and why is it so important for us here on earth. So, if you want to know more about it then stay with us until the end of the video.
The moon is our nearest celestial neighbor and the only body aside from Earth where humans have ever set foot, but there’s still a great deal we don’t know about it. China’s Chang’e-5 mission in 2020 returned the first lunar samples since the end of the Apollo program in 1976, and scientists now report the discovery of a new mineral in the payload. Even more interesting, the tiny, crystallized mineral could also be the key to generating energy through nuclear fusion.
According to reports, China’s National Space Administration (CNSA) and China Atomic Energy Authority (CAEA) jointly announced on September 9 that researchers studying samples returned from the Moon by China’s Chang’e-5 mission had discovered a new lunar mineral.
This is China’s first new mineral discovered on the Moon and the sixth ever by humankind. According to Dong Baotong, deputy director of the CAEA, the latest discovery places China as the third country in the world to have discovered a brand-new mineral on the Moon.
The newly discovered mineral, named as Changesite-(Y), is a clear, colorless columnar crystal. A research team from the Beijing Research Institute of Uranium Geology (BRIUG), a subsidiary of CNSA, discovered this after examining lunar basalt fragments collected by the mission.
The study team discovered signs of a new mineral when they received the first 50 milligrams of lunar samples in July 2021 to undertake a mineralogical investigation. However, due to the microscopic lunar soil particles, they could not obtain the necessary information to identify the mineral.
Using cutting-edge techniques like X-ray diffraction, researchers from the Beijing Research Institute of Uranium Geology were finally able to separate one crystal particle with a radius of around 10 microns from the 140,000 lunar sample particles, to decipher its crystal structure.
The discovery is significant for studying lunar materials, lunar evolution, and deep space exploration, according to Li Ziying, the team head of the BRIUG research team as The Chang’e 5 lunar probe landed on the Moon less than two years ago, in December 2020.

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