The Space Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences said Russia gave China one and a half grams of lunar soil, which was brought to Earth by a Soviet station in 1970.
101 grams of soil were extracted by the automatic interplanetary station “Luna-16” in the Sea of Abundance on the visible side of the Moon. This was the first automatic delivery of samples from another celestial body to Earth in history.
China also handed over 1.5 grams of lunar soil extracted by China’s Chang’e-5 automatic interplanetary station to Russia. Mineralogical and elemental analysis of the sample will be carried out by representatives of the Vernadsky Institute of Geochemistry and Analytical Chemistry and the Institute for Space Research.
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