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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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