We shaved a billion years off the age of the youngest known Moon rocks, and rewrote lunar geological history
- Written by: Alexander Nemchin, Associate Professor, Applied Geology, Curtin University
CNSA Lunar Exploration and Space Engineering CenterVolcanic rocks collected from the Moon last year are about two billion years old — a billion years younger than the samples returned by previous missions. This new discovery means the Moon was volcanically active much more recently than experts had previously thought.
Remote images taken over...