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in june this year, my country's lunar exploration project chang'e-6 mission successfully completed the feat of human beings' first sampling from the far side of the moon, bringing back 1,935.3 grams of precious samples. this is the first time that humans have obtained research samples from the far side of the moon.

when the chang'e-6 lunar samples returned, the lunar soil was sealed in a special, sealed storage tank and brought back to earth. now, nearly three months have passed, and these precious extraterrestrial visitors have been unsealed. based on these lunar samples, chinese scientists recently published the first scientific results of the chang'e-6 lunar sample research.

these glass bottles contain samples from chang'e 6. what are the characteristics of these samples from the far side of the moon? how are they different from the samples from chang'e 5 on the far side of the moon? what mysterious information about the far side of the moon do they reveal?

with permission, cctv reporters recently had exclusive access to the lunar sample laboratory at the national astronomical observatory of the chinese academy of sciences to see the true appearance of the chang'e-6 lunar far side samples.

1 the lunar soil samples collected by chang'e-6 have been divided into 10 parts

cctv reporter shuai junquan: in the lunar sample storage cabinet next to me, you can see that the lower layer contains the surface samples of chang'e-6. they have now been divided into 10 glass containers, each weighing about 150 grams.

2 the color of the chang'e 6 lunar far side samples is slightly lighter than that of the chang'e 5 samples

cctv reporter shuai junquan: compared with the chang'e-5 lunar samples on the upper layer, the chang'e-6 lunar samples appear to be slightly lighter in color because they contain different mineral compositions.