How Young-Looking Lunar Volcano Hides Its True Age
March 28, 2017
March 28, 2017
PROVIDENCE, R.I., March 28 -- Brown University issued the following news release:
While orbiting the Moon in 1971, the crew of Apollo 15 photographed a strange geological feature -- a bumpy, D-shaped depression about two miles long and a mile wide -- that has fascinated planetary scientists ever since. Some have suggested that the feature, known as Ina, is evidence of a volcanic eruption Moon within the past 100 million years -- a billion years or so after most volcanic activity o . . .
While orbiting the Moon in 1971, the crew of Apollo 15 photographed a strange geological feature -- a bumpy, D-shaped depression about two miles long and a mile wide -- that has fascinated planetary scientists ever since. Some have suggested that the feature, known as Ina, is evidence of a volcanic eruption Moon within the past 100 million years -- a billion years or so after most volcanic activity o . . .