China presents lunar samples to Russia and France to promote the sharing of scientific achievements

Thanks to CTOnews.com netizen grass Luo Yuzi for the clue delivery! CTOnews.com, April 24, CTOnews.com learned from the official website of the National Space Administration that just at the launching ceremony of the home event of "China Space Day" in 2023, China's National Space Administration announced the news that China had given lunar samples to Russia and France.

In April this year, during French President Macron's visit to China, China presented 1.5 grams of scientific lunar samples to France. On February 4, 2022, when Russian President Vladimir Putin visited China, China presented 1.5 grams of scientific lunar samples to Russia. During Chinese President Xi Jinping's visit to Russia in March 2023, Russia returned 1.5g of scientific lunar samples to China.

The lunar samples given by China to France and Russia come from drilling samples and watch samples obtained by China's Chang'e-5 mission from the lunar frontal storm ocean northeast Skyship base in December 2020. The lunar samples returned by Russia to China come from samples drilled by the Soviet Lunar-16 mission before 1970.

In December 2020, China's National Space Administration issued the measures for the Administration of Lunar samples, encouraging lunar sample research and promoting the sharing of scientific achievements. So far, scientists from Australia, Russia, France, the United States, Britain and Sweden have participated in the scientific research of Chinese lunar samples.

According to the National Space Administration, the international sharing and joint research of lunar samples is a major event in the international scientific community, an important way to study scientific issues such as the formation and evolution of the moon, and a major scientific activity for human society to explore the unknown world. China has always adhered to the principles of peaceful use, equality and mutual benefit, carried out space exchanges and cooperation with other countries in the world, and jointly promoted the building of a community with a shared future for mankind in the field of outer space.