{"id":225238,"date":"2025-11-17T01:02:26","date_gmt":"2025-11-17T07:02:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/chinese-scientists-discover-lunar-rust-revealing-new-oxidation-process-on-the-moon"},"modified":"2025-11-17T01:02:26","modified_gmt":"2025-11-17T07:02:26","slug":"chinese-scientists-discover-lunar-rust-revealing-new-oxidation-process-on-the-moon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/chinese-scientists-discover-lunar-rust-revealing-new-oxidation-process-on-the-moon","title":{"rendered":"Chinese scientists discover lunar rust, revealing new oxidation process on the moon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/chinese-scientists-discover-lunar-rust-revealing-new-oxidation-process-on-the-moon.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Chinese scientists have, for the first time, identified micrometer-sized crystals of hematite and maghemite in lunar soil samples brought back by the Chang\u2019e 6 mission from the moon\u2019s far side.<\/p>\n<p>This finding, published in the latest issue of the journal Science Advances, reveals a previously unknown oxidation process on the moon. It provides direct sample evidence for the origin of magnetic anomalies around the South Pole-Aitken Basin and challenges the long-standing view that the lunar surface is entirely in a reduced state with minimal oxidation, according to the China National Space Administration.<\/p>\n<p>The research, conducted by Shandong University, the Institute of Geochemistry of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and Yunnan University, identified these iron oxides in the Chang\u2019e 6 samples collected from the SPA Basin, the largest and oldest known impact basin in the solar system.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chinese scientists have, for the first time, identified micrometer-sized crystals of hematite and maghemite in lunar soil samples brought back by the Chang\u2019e 6 mission from the moon\u2019s far side. This finding, published in the latest issue of the journal Science Advances, reveals a previously unknown oxidation process on the moon. It provides direct sample [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-225238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225238","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=225238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225238\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}