A container specially designed to hold the lunar land for exhibition at the National Museum of China finally shows the samples brought at the end of last year by the Chang'e 5 mission.
The exhibition will be open to the public in March.
Zun
He synthetic quartz support reproduces the zun, a supreme bronze wine vessel that was often used for grand ceremonies in the Shang (16th-11th century BC) and Zhou (11th century-771 BC) dynasties. The lunar soil will be placed in a hollow globe in the center of the stand.
The sample is among 60 grams recovered by a 23-day robotic mission. Chang'e 5 was launched from the Wenchang Space Launch Center in Hainan Province on November 24 and landed on the Moon on December 1.
More than 40 years have passed since missions from the United States and the then Soviet Union collected lunar rocks and soil to be analyzed on our planet.
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China has exhibited for the first time lunar samples brought from the Moon by its Chang'e 5 mission
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