Ge Ping, a senior space official overseeing China's lunar programs, told reporters after an unveiling ceremony that the samples appear to be 'thicker and stickier' than ones collected from the Moon's near side. He added that they contain some 'lumps.'
The deputy designer of the China National Space Administration mission to the far side of the Moon said that although the samples have yet to be analyzed, they 'may have very different mineral chemical compositions.' 'In other words,' said the official, Li Chunlai, 'we only know about half of the moon from the samples collected in the past.'
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