INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
A year after China returned the first rock samples from the moon’s far side, scientists are debating whether the mission has answered a
central question in lunar science – and whether the country’s rising scientific dominance is challenging who gets to tell the story of
the moon’s past.
While a team of Chinese researchers believes they may have nailed down the age of the moon’s largest and oldest crater
– a colossal impact basin that could hold clues to the early solar system – other scientists,...
