China News Service, Beijing, July 12 (Ma Shuaisha) The release ceremony and press conference of the first batch of lunar scientific research samples of the Chang'e-5 mission were held in Beijing on the 12th.
Zhu Rixiang, academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, researcher of the Institute of Geology and Geophysics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and director of the Lunar Sample Expert Committee, said that the lunar samples collected by Chang'e 5 are different from those obtained by the United States and the Soviet Union in the past. Through research on the lunar samples collected by Chang'e 5, A new understanding of the evolution of the moon and planets and the habitability of planets will be produced.
Regarding the expected research progress of Chang'e-5 samples, Zhu Rixiang said that the first progress is to cultivate talents. Due to the American Wolfe Act, Chinese scientists basically cannot obtain Apollo lunar samples for research, which restricts the development of China's lunar and planetary sciences. .
Now China can cultivate its own research team.
Second, the sampling area has undergone a lot of research and demonstration, and it is possible to have a breakthrough understanding of the dynamics of the moon's evolution.
Third, it has an important guiding role for China's follow-up lunar and deep space exploration.
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