{"id":223707,"date":"2025-10-21T04:19:45","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T09:19:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/china-brought-something-unexpected-back-from-the-far-side-of-the-moon"},"modified":"2025-10-21T04:19:45","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T09:19:45","slug":"china-brought-something-unexpected-back-from-the-far-side-of-the-moon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/china-brought-something-unexpected-back-from-the-far-side-of-the-moon","title":{"rendered":"China Brought Something Unexpected Back From The Far Side of The Moon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/china-brought-something-unexpected-back-from-the-far-side-of-the-moon2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Dust from the far side of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/moon\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_self\">the Moon<\/a> has yielded an unexpected microscopic treasure we\u2019ve never seen before.<\/p>\n<p>A close examination of lunar material collected during the China National Space Administration\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/world-first-chinas-change-6-lunar-probe-returns-with-rocks-from-moons-far-side\">Chang\u2019e-6 mission<\/a> revealed specks of dust from a kind of water-bearing meteorite so fragile it seldom <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/a-fireball-spotted-over-the-australian-desert-could-have-been-a-rare-and-elusive-minimoon\">survives the trip<\/a> through Earth\u2019s atmosphere.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s the first confirmed debris of a type of meteorite known as Ivuna-type carbonaceous chondrite \u2013 or <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/CI_chondrite\">CI chondrite<\/a> \u2013 ever to be found on the Moon, demonstrating that fragile, water-bearing asteroids can leave microscopic traces embedded in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/for-the-first-time-scientists-have-grown-plants-in-moon-dirt-it-didn-t-go-great\">lunar regolith<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dust from the far side of the Moon has yielded an unexpected microscopic treasure we\u2019ve never seen before. A close examination of lunar material collected during the China National Space Administration\u2019s Chang\u2019e-6 mission revealed specks of dust from a kind of water-bearing meteorite so fragile it seldom survives the trip through Earth\u2019s atmosphere. It\u2019s the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1635,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-223707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-materials","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223707","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=223707"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223707\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}