Russia handed over a sample of lunar soil to China
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The Space Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences said that 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 was mined by the automatic interplanetary station “Luna-16” in the Sea of Plenty on the visible side of the Moon. It was the first automatic delivery of samples from another celestial body to Earth in history.
China also handed over to Russia 1.5 grams of lunar soil mined by the Chinese automatic interplanetary station Chang’e-5. Mineralogical and elemental analysis of the sample will be carried out by representatives of the Vernadsky Institute of Geochemistry and Analytical Chemistry and the Space Research Institute.
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