China announced on Friday it had discovered two new lunar minerals, state media reported.
The minerals were discovered from the lunar samples brought back by the Chang’e-5 mission, said the China National Space Administration (CNSA).
The Chang’e-5 mission returned to Earth in December 2020, bringing home some 1,731 grammes of lunar samples from Oceanus Procellarum — China’s first lunar samples — and also marking the first lunar samples brought to Earth in 44 years.
The CNSA identified the minerals as magnesiochangesite-(Y) and changesite-(Ce), taking the overall number of minerals discovered from the Moon to eight globally.
