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Lunar dynamo’s lifetime extended by at least 1 billion years

Astronomers report that a lunar rock collected by NASA’s Apollo 15 mission exhibits signs that it formed 1 to 2.5 billion years ago in the presence of a relatively weak magnetic field of about 5 microtesla. That’s around 10 times … Continue reading

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Lifetime and size of shallow magma bodies controlled by crustal-scale magmatism

Nature Geoscience 10, 446 (2017). doi:10.1038/ngeo2959 Authors: Ozge Karakas, Wim Degruyter, Olivier Bachmann & Josef Dufek Nature Geoscience – Issue – nature.com science feeds

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