Chang'e 6 lunar soil research makes new breakthrough Moon "impact storm" advances at least 1 billion years

Recently, a Chinese research team has conducted high-precision geochronological studies on lunar soil samples from the Chang'e 6 mission, and for the first time accurately determined that the formation of the Moon's Apollo basin occurred 4.16 billion years ago. This discovery precisely defines the time of the basin's formation, pushing back the start of the moon's "impact storm" by at least 1 billion years, helping to advance human understanding of the evolution of the Earth-Moon system. This achievement was published on August 20 in the international academic journal Nature Astronomy.