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2DEWC6E Beijing, China. 2nd Dec, 2020. This image taken from video animation at Beijing Aerospace Control Center (BACC) shows Chang'e-5 spacecraft landing on the moon. China's Chang'e-5 spacecraft successfully landed on the near side of the moon late Tuesday and sent back images, the China National Space Administration (CNSA) announced. Credit: Jin Liwang/Xinhua/Alamy Live News

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Moon rocks collected by the Chang’e 5 mission have water in them

China’s Chang’e 5 mission landed on the moon in 2020 and sent back samples of dust and rocks, which have been found to contain water – but not very much of it

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Lunar Plants Research Documentation, Tuesday May 18th, 2021.

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Growing plants in soil from the moon doesn't really work very well

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SIZIWANG BANNER, CHINA - DECEMBER 17: Staff members work at the landing site of the return capsule of Chang'e-5 probe, which is carrying soil and rocks from the moon, on December 17, 2020 in Siziwang Banner, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region of China. (Photo by Ma Jianbing/VCG via Getty Images)

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Chinese rover finds lunar soil could make oxygen and fuel on the moon

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Full moon over an iceberg at dusk, Saqqaq, Disko Bay, Greenland, September 2009

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The moon has a small but noticeable effect on climate change

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This image shows the swirl region within Mare Ingenii. The bright and dark swirl pattern is stark against the lunar mare terrain. The images are from the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera (LROC) extracted from the LROC quickmap (https://quickmap.lroc.asu.edu/).

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Strange swirls on the moon may be created by dips in the surface

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Artist Jorge Ma?es Rubio, part of ESA?s future-oriented Advanced Concepts Team (ACT), has designed a place of contemplation to serve a future lunar settlement. It would be built on the sunlit rim of 21-km diameter Shackleton Crater, which is bathed much of the time in sunlight while overlooking a 4.2 km-deep interior mired in perpetual shadow.

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Double-shadowed moon craters may be coldest place in the solar system

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Artwork of the young Earth-Moon system. The Earth had recently formed when it was struck by a protoplanet called Theia roughly three times the size of Mars. Debris from the impact went into orbit, while the cores of the two planets merged. Within weeks of the event, the debris formed a Saturn-like ring around the Earth. Later collisions in this ring led to the formation of the Moon, probably within just a few thousand years. Initially the Earth and Moon were much closer together than they are now, and spinning more quickly.

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Moon mystery could be solved by simulation of planetary smash-up

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space junk

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We don’t know whose rocket is about to hit the moon – that’s a problem

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Yutu-2 rover

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Yutu-2 lunar rover finds sticky soil on the far side of the moon

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The moon

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The moon's magnetic field may have been altered by huge sinking rocks

There’s a new explanation for the moon’s former magnetic field, and it involves 60-kilometre-wide slabs of rock sinking through the lunar mantle

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Apollo 17 rock sample hints the moon cooled faster than we thought

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Environment

Fix the Planet newsletter: The tide is turning for sea power

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Rocks gathered by Chang'e 5 rover show magma once spewed from the moon

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Tim Peake: The future of humans in space

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