The far side of the moon may be much colder than the side we can see, suggests new research. The interior of the mysterious far side of the satellite could be chillier than the side constantly facing ...
The interior of the mysterious far side of the moon may be colder than the side constantly facing Earth, suggests a new analysis of rock samples co-led by a UCL (University College London) and Peking ...
New lunar samples from the far side reveal it formed from cooler magma than the near side, confirming the Moon’s interior is not uniform. Researchers suggest fewer heat-producing elements on the far ...
Astronomers refer to the side we always see from Earth as the “near side” and the side we can never see as the “far side.” The far side of the moon: What China and the world hope to find In a ...
Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. The dark side of the moon is real — but it’s probably not ...
We’re now closer to the year The Jetsons was set, 2062, than the moon landing. If that fact disturbs you, you’re not alone. “Since we surveyed, mapped, explored, and planted a flag,” writes Robert ...
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 ...
In a groundbreaking development for lunar science, scientists have discovered extraterrestrial relics in samples retrieved from the moon’s far side by China’s Chang’e-6 mission. This marks the first ...
The South Pole-Aitken impact basin on the far side of the Moon formed in a southward impact (toward the bottom in the image). The basin has a radioactive “KREEP-rich” ejecta blanket on one side of the ...
China’s Chang’e-6 mission, the first sample return mission to the far side of the Moon last year, made a fascinating discovery. While poring over the returned lunar samples, which arrived on Earth in ...
A colossal northern asteroid impact billions of years ago likely shaped the Moon’s south polar region and explains its uneven terrain. Researchers found that the South Pole-Aitken Basin formed from a ...
The interior of the mysterious far side of the moon may be colder than the side constantly facing Earth, suggests a new analysis of rock samples co-led by a UCL (University College London) and Peking ...