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Dated Ages of Lunar Samples from Select Missions
Mission nameYearLanding siteApproximate age of lunar samples (billions of years)
Apollo 111969Mare Tranquillitatis3.6
Apollo 151971Mare Imbrium3.3
Apollo 171972Mare Serenitatis3.8
Chang’e 52020Oceanus Procellarum2.0
The Apollo program missions were spaceflights to the moon led by the United States during the 1960s and 1970s during which astronauts collected some samples of the moon’s surface. More recently, China launched the Chang’e 5 mission, which returned additional lunar surface samples. Researchers have analyzed and dated each of the samples, concluding that the lunar samples collected during the Chang’e 5 mission are significant because       
Which choice most effectively uses data from the table to complete the claim?
A
they are much younger than the samples brought back from any of the Apollo missions.
B
they were collected from the same landing site as the Apollo 11 mission.
C
they are closest in age to the samples brought back by the Apollo 17 mission.
D
they helped confirm the predicted ages of the lunar samples from the Apollo missions.