Fig. 1: Selected ilmenite-bearing lunar grains from the shoveled and drilled Chang’e-5 samples. | Communications Earth & Environment

Fig. 1: Selected ilmenite-bearing lunar grains from the shoveled and drilled Chang’e-5 samples.

From: Space-weathered rims on lunar ilmenite as an indicator for relative exposure ages of regolith

Fig. 1

a The secondary electron (SE) image of the ilmenite-bearing clast from the finest shoveled Chang’e-5 lunar soil. b–f X-ray element maps of titanium overlaid on SE images of selected lithic clasts. Yellow rectangles indicate the extraction locations of the focused ion beam (FIB) samples.

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