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ArticleNature communications2025

Lunar primitive mantle olivine returned by Chang'e-6.

Si-Zhang Sheng, Shui-Jiong Wang, Qiu-Li Li, Shitou Wu, Hao Wang, Jun-Xiang Hua, Zhenyu Chen, Jin-Hua Hao, Bo Zhang, Yongsheng He and 1 more

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  1. Impactor relics of CI-like chondrites in Chang'e-6 lunar samples.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025
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11 authors.

Si-Zhang ShengState Key Laboratory of Geological Processes and Mineral Resources, China University of Geosciences (Beijing), Beijing, China.
Shui-Jiong WangState Key Laboratory of Geological Processes and Mineral Resources, China University of Geosciences (Beijing), Beijing, China. wsj@cugb.edu.cn.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2111-0255
Qiu-Li LiState Key Laboratory of Lithospheric and Environmental Coevolution, Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7280-5508
Shitou WuState Key Laboratory of Lithospheric and Environmental Coevolution, Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8420-9877
Hao WangState Key Laboratory of Lithospheric and Environmental Coevolution, Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0021-7563
Jun-Xiang HuaState Key Laboratory of Geological Processes and Mineral Resources, China University of Geosciences (Beijing), Beijing, China.
Zhenyu ChenMNR Key Laboratory of Metallogeny and Mineral Assessment, Institute of Mineral Resource, Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences, Beijing, China.
Jin-Hua HaoInstitute of Earth Sciences, China University of Geosciences (Beijing), Beijing, China.
Bo ZhangThe Key Laboratory of Orogenic Belts and Crustal Evolution, School of Earth and Space Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, China.
Yongsheng HeState Key Laboratory of Geological Processes and Mineral Resources, China University of Geosciences (Beijing), Beijing, China.
Jian-Ming ZhuState Key Laboratory of Geological Processes and Mineral Resources, China University of Geosciences (Beijing), Beijing, China.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4977-6072

Funding

National Natural Science Foundation of China (National Science Foundation of China) 42225301
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The lunar mantle is important for unraveling the Moon's formation and early differentiation processes. Here, we identify primitive lunar olivines in soils returned by the Chang'e-6 mission. These olivines have oxygen isotopic compositions plotting along the terrestrial fractionation line, and are characterized by high forsterite contents up to 95.6, and a broad range of nickel abundances from zero to 682 ppm. While the low-nickel (zero to 251 ppm), forsteritic olivines align with a Mg-suite origin, the most primitive, high-nickel olivines (337 to 682 ppm) have a different origin. They could be either the first olivine crystallized from the Lunar Magma Ocean (LMO) with an Earth-like initial composition, or crystallized from a hitherto unrecognized ultra-magnesian lava produced by extensive melting of the early LMO cumulate. The exposure of these mantle olivines was facilitated by their entrainment in ascending high-Mg lavas and conveyed to the surface at the South Pole-Aitken Basin.

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