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ArticleNature communications2025

Sulfur isotopes from the lunar farside reveal global volatile loss following the giant impact.

Yiheng Li, Zaicong Wang, Wen Zhang, Keqing Zong, Zhenbing She, Qi He, Jiaqi Zheng, Tianyang Li, Fabin Pan, Xu Chen and 7 more

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Article in Nature communications, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed.

  1. Isotopic evidence for volatile loss driven by South Pole-Aitken basin-forming impact.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

17 authors.

Yiheng LiState Key Laboratory of Geological Processes and Mineral Resources, Hubei Key Laboratory of Planetary Geology and Deep-Space Exploration, School of Earth Sciences, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan, China.
Zaicong WangState Key Laboratory of Geological Processes and Mineral Resources, Hubei Key Laboratory of Planetary Geology and Deep-Space Exploration, School of Earth Sciences, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan, China. zaicongwang@cug.edu.cn.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3584-1673
Wen ZhangState Key Laboratory of Geological Processes and Mineral Resources, Hubei Key Laboratory of Planetary Geology and Deep-Space Exploration, School of Earth Sciences, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan, China.
Keqing ZongState Key Laboratory of Geological Processes and Mineral Resources, Hubei Key Laboratory of Planetary Geology and Deep-Space Exploration, School of Earth Sciences, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan, China.
Zhenbing SheState Key Laboratory of Geological Processes and Mineral Resources, Hubei Key Laboratory of Planetary Geology and Deep-Space Exploration, School of Earth Sciences, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan, China.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0068-9138
Qi HeState Key Laboratory of Geological Processes and Mineral Resources, Hubei Key Laboratory of Planetary Geology and Deep-Space Exploration, School of Earth Sciences, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan, China.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4082-216X
Jiaqi ZhengState Key Laboratory of Geological Processes and Mineral Resources, Hubei Key Laboratory of Planetary Geology and Deep-Space Exploration, School of Earth Sciences, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan, China.
Tianyang LiState Key Laboratory of Geological Processes and Mineral Resources, Hubei Key Laboratory of Planetary Geology and Deep-Space Exploration, School of Earth Sciences, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan, China.
Fabin PanState Key Laboratory of Geological Processes and Mineral Resources, Hubei Key Laboratory of Planetary Geology and Deep-Space Exploration, School of Earth Sciences, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan, China.
Xu ChenState Key Laboratory of Geological Processes and Mineral Resources, Hubei Key Laboratory of Planetary Geology and Deep-Space Exploration, School of Earth Sciences, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan, China.
Kosta CrnobrnjaState Key Laboratory of Geological Processes and Mineral Resources, Hubei Key Laboratory of Planetary Geology and Deep-Space Exploration, School of Earth Sciences, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan, China.
Long XiaoState Key Laboratory of Geological Processes and Mineral Resources, Hubei Key Laboratory of Planetary Geology and Deep-Space Exploration, School of Earth Sciences, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan, China.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5271-8554
Zhaochu HuState Key Laboratory of Geological Processes and Mineral Resources, Hubei Key Laboratory of Planetary Geology and Deep-Space Exploration, School of Earth Sciences, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan, China.
Xiang WuState Key Laboratory of Geological Processes and Mineral Resources, Hubei Key Laboratory of Planetary Geology and Deep-Space Exploration, School of Earth Sciences, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan, China.
Yongsheng LiuState Key Laboratory of Geological Processes and Mineral Resources, Hubei Key Laboratory of Planetary Geology and Deep-Space Exploration, School of Earth Sciences, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan, China.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9340-9205
Julien SiebertUniversite de Paris Cité, Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Unité Mixte de Recherche (UMR) 7154, Paris, France.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9972-6239
Frédéric MoynierUniversite de Paris Cité, Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Unité Mixte de Recherche (UMR) 7154, Paris, France.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4321-5581

Funding

China Scholarship Council (CSC) 202406410015China University of Geosciences, Wuhan (CUG) G1323523042National Natural Science Foundation of China (National Science Foundation of China) ZYGXQNJSKYCXNLZCXM-P6Natural Science Foundation of Hubei Province (Hubei Provincial Natural Science Foundation) 2025AFA005
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The Moon is strongly depleted in volatile elements and exhibits heavier isotopic signatures (e.g., K, Zn) than the Earth. However, the pronounced nearside-farside dichotomy and uneven distribution of volatiles across lunar interior raise the question of whether such heavier isotopic signatures resulted from a global giant impact or local magmatic processes. Here we report high sulfur contents (1800 ± 400 µg/g) and δ

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