International Lunar Sample Research Symposium 2025

Announcement International Lunar Sample Research Symposium 2025 (http://www.ilsrs.org) 

After decades of lunar exploration since the Apollo era, lunar samples have become the largest treasure returned by human beings, as they have unlimited potentials to understand the Earth-Moon system. So far, lunar samples have been collected by USA’s Apollo-11, 12, 14, 15, 16, 17 missions, Soviet Union’s Luna 16, 20, 24 missions, and China’s Chang’e-5, 6 missions, and recovered as lunar meteorites. The recent acquisition of Chang’e-5 samples from the youngest mare region in the Procellarum KREEP Terrance, the Chang’e-6 samples from the lunar farside in the South Pole Aitken basin, and the recent opening of NASA’s Apollo samples in the Apollo Next Generation Sample Analysis program bring a new era of lunar sample studies that are likely to solve the most significant questions of lunar science lasting since the Apollo era.

To share the recent findings of Chang’e-5, 6, Apollo, Luna samples, lunar meteorites, and other lunar sample related studies, to prepare for future lunar sample return analyses such as those returned by China’s and USA’s human lunar missions, and to foster international cooperation in lunar sample studies of China and their international partners, the Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) and the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences at the University of Hong Kong (HKU) jointly propose this International Lunar Sample Research Symposium on November 21-24, 2025. It aims to present the most intriguing findings from all kinds of lunar sample studies, including but not limited to:
1) Lunar Sample Return Missions
2) Origin of the Moon
3) Lunar Differentiation
4) Lunar Magmatism
5) Lunar Magnetism
6) Lunar Impact Processes and Chronology
7) Lunar Meteorites
8) Lunar Space Weathering
9) Lunar Volatiles
10) Lunar Resources
11) Lunar Analogues
12) New Techniques