Material from the crater can "tell the story of the late evolution of the lunar magma ocean," scientists say. A giant impact crater on the moon may contain primordial pieces of the lunar mantle ...

Recent findings from samples collected by China's Chang'e 6 mission have provided valuable insights into the history of the moon, particularly its far side. The Chang'e 6 mission launched in early ...

These findings validate the lunar magma ocean hypothesis, which states that the moon experienced global-scale melting shortly after its formation, creating a vast magma ocean. As the molten ...

The primary age of the basalt in the study samples is 2.823 billion years, and the characteristics of the source region validate the lunar magma ocean model. The findings also suggest that the ...

Since 2021, Chinese scientists have used lunar soil samples returned by the Chang'e 5 mission to demonstrate that significant magma activity still existed on the nearside of the moon 2 billion ...

According to this widely accepted lunar origin story, known as the impact theory, the newborn moon dissipated its leftover energy into heat, which melted its surface into an ocean of magma that ...

Aug 23, 2024 21:00:00 Indian lunar probe finds evidence of ancient moon's 'ocean of magma' It is believed that the primordial Earth was a fireball covered in magma, which was the result of ...

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This theory, known as the lunar magma ocean (LMO) model, describes how the debris from the impact of Theia coalesced to form the moon, with the energy from this event causing the newly formed moon ...