Different moon rocks tell different tales about a long-ago bombardment
Sample ages bolster a rising tide doubting a singular 3.9 billion-year-old lunar cataclysm
China's Chang'e-6 spacecraft (shown in a photograph taken by a mini rover that accompanied it to the moon) brought the first samples of the lunar farside back to Earth in 2024. Those samples record different parts of the moon's history than the nearside rocks.
CNSA, Handout via Xinhua