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Chang'e-6 samples constrain lunar impact flux and illuminate early impact history

  • February 10, 2026 at 4:00 PM
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Chang'e-6 samples constrain lunar impact flux and illuminate early impact history
Scientists from the Institute of Geology and Geophysics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), the CAS Aerospace Information Research Institute, and other institutions, have revised the decades-old lunar crater chronology model, using samples collected from the far side of the moon by China's Chang'e-6 mission and complementary remote sensing imagery.

Originally published at Phys.org

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