(ANSA) - ROME, JULY 03 - The Moon below its surface is richer in metals than expected, especially iron oxides and titanium. The discovery could add unpublished details on the origin of our satellite. This is what emerges from the study published in the journal Earth and Planetary Science Letters by the group of the University of Southern California and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (Jpl) NASA of the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), coordinated by Essam Heggy. The study is based on data from the mission of the NASA Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (Lro), whose tools have been used to reconstruct, through radio images, the characteristics of fine dust on the bottom of the lunar craters.
Dust brought to the surface by impacts with meteorites to which the Moon, without its own atmosphere, has always been subjected.
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The Moon has more metals than expected below its surface
2020-07-03T18:05:39.776Z
(HANDLE)(ANSA) - ROME, JULY 03 - The Moon below its surface is richer in metals than expected, especially iron oxides and titanium. The discovery could add unpublished details on the origin of our satellite. This is what emerges from the study published in the journal Earth and Planetary Science Letters by the group of the University of Southern California and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (Jpl) NASA of t...