China's Chang'e-6 mission collected 1,935.3 grams of samples from the moon's far side, the China National Space Administration (CNSA) announced on Friday. The samples were handed over to research teams from the Chinese Academy of Sciences at a ceremony held by the CNSA in Beijing. The researchers will carry out the storage and processing of the lunar samples as planned and initiate scientific research work.
China is set to reveal the weight of the historic lunar samples collected from the far side of the moon by the Chang'e-6 mission. Unlike previous missions that gathered samples from the well-studied near side of the moon, Chang'e-6 successfully retrieved material from the far side, a region shrouded in mystery.
After the Chang'e-6 mission brought home the world's first samples collected from the moon's far side on Tuesday, Chinese scientists eagerly look forward to conducting research on the samples to uncover more mysteries of the moon. The Chang'e-6 lunar probe carried four international payloads that were developed jointly by Chinese and foreign scientists. It is conceivable that the openness of Chinese lunar exploration activities will be mirrored in the study of Chang'e-6 lunar samples.
This Germplasm Bank of Wild Species (GBOWS), located in the northern suburb of Kunming, the provincial capital, is the largest facility of its kind in Asia. It houses more than 94,000 plant seed accessions from over 11,000 wild species, representing over one-third of China's wild seed plants.
If Xishuangbanna is an oasis on the Tropic of Cancer, then XTBG is the most dazzling gem in that oasis. This 1,125-hectare park preserves over 13,000 species of tropical plants in its 35 living collections, including over 301 families and 2,110 genera. In the eyes of ecologists, this vast beauty holds a plethora of secrets about nature. Hundreds of researchers and students from more than 30 countries work together there to decipher nature's code. Nakamura is one of them.
Born in Ningbo, Dr. LU Zhiyi honed his expertise in environment and catalysis research during his four-year expedition at Stanford University. Now in his howntown, he's leading innovation to provide hydrogen solution for energy and environmental issues at the Ningbo Institute of Materials Technology and Engineering of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, by virtue of a vibrant team and his multi-displinary research background.
Tracking Chinese white dolphins in the sea under the scorching sun is a common scene of the work for French scientist Agathe Serres. Now an expert in the study of Chinese white dolphins, Agathe came to China in 2016 to study for a doctorate before she secured a job as an assistant researcher at the Institute of Deep-Sea Science and Engineering (IDSSE) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS).
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