The moon may be much older than we thought
The IndependentSign up to our free weekly IndyTech newsletter delivered straight to your inbox Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. “We predict that there shouldn’t be any lunar rocks that are older than 4.35 billion years because they should have experienced the same resetting,” UC Santa Cruz Professor Francis Nimmo said in a statement. “Because this heating event was global, you shouldn’t find rocks anywhere on the moon that are significantly older than that.” open image in gallery An artist's impression shows what the moon may have looked like during intense volcanic activity. This ‘remelting’ could be an explanation for when and how the moon formed, scientists said this week Nimmo’s “idea paper” was published Wednesday in the journal Nature. “As more data becomes available—particularly from ongoing and future lunar missions—the understanding of the moon’s past will continue to evolve,” Nimmo said.
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