Leonard David is an award-winning space journalist who has been reporting on space activities for more than 50 years. Currently writing as Space.
About that five-star red flag now in position on the far side of the moon — it's made of basalt, a type of volcanic rock that's plentiful on the lunar surface .That flag measures 300 millimeters by 200 millimeters , about the size of an A4 sheet of paper. Weighing only 11.3 grams , the far side flag is similar in size to the one carried by China's's near side in late 2020 and delivered lunar samples to Earth shortly thereafter.
"Building on this idea and the lunar 'local specialty' brought back by Chang'e 5, we have found in the literature that the main content of lunar soil is basalt," Cao told CCTV.
The result: a national flag with superior corrosion resistance, high-temperature tolerance and low-temperature endurance. "The entire production of the flag started with the rocks," said Wang."We first mixed together all the basalt rocks collected from different locations before breaking them into very small pieces."
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