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Fri Mar 27

New study measures titanium in Apollo rock to uncover Moon’s early chemistry

Written by Advik D. Vira, Graduate Student in Physics, Georgia Institute of Technology

The Camelot crater in the Moon's Taurus-Littrow Valley is where the sample containing trivalent titanium was found.NASA/Apollo 17: AS17-145-22159

The Earth and the Moon may look very different today, but they formed under similar conditions in space. In fact, a dominant hypothesis says that the early Earth was hit by a Mars-sized object, and it was...

New study measures titanium in Apollo rock to uncover Moon’s early chemistry

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