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Chinese scientists have achieved a major breakthrough in mapping the Moon’s chemical composition by building an AI-based model using the measured data from the first sample collected on the Moon’s far side by the Chang’e-6 mission. The model, for the first time, integrates ground-truth information from the Moon’s far side into a global chemical composition map, offering new insights into the Moon’s asymmetry and the evolution of the South Pole-Aitken Basin, the Science and Technology Daily reported on Sunday, citing the Deep Space Exploration Lab.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The research results, achieved by a joint research team of scientists from Tongji University, Shanghai Institute of Technical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shandong University, and the Deep Space Exploration Lab, were recently published as a cover article in the third issue of the international academic journal Nature Sensors.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The research team developed an intelligent inversion framework for lunar chemical composition based on the measured data from the first samples collected on the Moon’s far side by the Chang’e-6 mission, combined with high-resolution visible, near-infrared multispectral imaging data from lunar orbit.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The AI precisely reconstructed the distribution of the oxides of six major elements across the Moon – iron, titanium, aluminum, magnesium, calcium and silicon – as well as the magnesium index, even under conditions of limited samples.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The study clearly maps the elemental distribution characteristics of three major geochemical regions on the Moon’s surface including the lunar mare, the highlands, and the South Pole-Aitken Basin.\u00a0<\/p>\n
For the first time, the study quantitatively reveals that the exposure proportion of magnesian anorthosite and the magnesian rock suite in the far-side lunar highlands is significantly higher than on the lunar near side, providing new empirical evidence for the hypothesis of asymmetric crystallization and differentiation of the lunar magma ocean.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, the study precisely delineates the boundary between the magnesian pyroxene ring and the iron-rich anomaly zone in the South Pole-Aitken Basin, confirming that the basin-forming impact exposed a broader range of deep-seated magnesium-rich materials.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The study advances human knowledge of the Moon’s structure and the evolution of the South Pole-Aitken Basin, while providing precise chemical data for future lunar landings, resource exploration, and deep-space mission planning. The achievement represents a key advance in China’s lunar science, providing a foundation for the continued advancement of China’s lunar exploration program.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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