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At least this wasn't some dumb clickbait about a "new probe programmed in rust".

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>A Chinese-led team of boffins has uncovered tiny grains of hematite and maghemite in materials scooped from the Moon's far-side South Pole-Aitken Basin by the Chang'e 6 probe – iron oxides more at home on rusty tools on Earth than on our bone-dry satellite. Until now, the lunar surface was thought to be a strongly reducing environment – essentially the opposite of rust-friendly – and earlier sample returns didn't show any of these iron oxides at all. The new data upends that assumption. "This finding provides credible evidence for the presence of Fe2O3 on the lunar surface, challenging the traditional understanding of the lunar surface," scientists wrote in a study published in Science Advances.

At least this wasn't some dumb clickbait about a "new probe programmed in rust". Archive: https://archive.today/NdxXb From the post: >>A Chinese-led team of boffins has uncovered tiny grains of hematite and maghemite in materials scooped from the Moon's far-side South Pole-Aitken Basin by the Chang'e 6 probe – iron oxides more at home on rusty tools on Earth than on our bone-dry satellite. Until now, the lunar surface was thought to be a strongly reducing environment – essentially the opposite of rust-friendly – and earlier sample returns didn't show any of these iron oxides at all. The new data upends that assumption. "This finding provides credible evidence for the presence of Fe2O3 on the lunar surface, challenging the traditional understanding of the lunar surface," scientists wrote in a study published in Science Advances.

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