Researchers have also suggested that an asteroid impact triggered the moon’s lopsidedness. Now, lunar rock and soil samples ...
The near side of the Moon, which faces the Earth, is thinner, while the mysterious far side is crammed with thick layers of ...
According to observations of young ridges see on the far side, Earth's moon is not geologically dead, as previously believed.
Stephen M. Elardo is in the Florida Planets Lab, Department of Geological Sciences, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida 32611, USA. Read the paper: Ultra-depleted mantle source of basalts from ...
Map of the thickness of the Moon's crust from GRAIL mission gravity data. Mean thickness are estimated to be 34-43 km. Imagine a system of molten silicate material, where low-density minerals float ...