University of Hawaii: Has Earth's Oxygen Rusted the Moon for Billions of Years?
September 03, 2020
September 03, 2020
HONOLULU, Hawaii, Sept. 3 -- The University of Hawaii issued the following news release:
To the surprise of many planetary scientists, the oxidized iron mineral hematite has been discovered at high latitudes on the Moon. That's according to a study published in Science Advances led by Shuai Li, an assistant researcher at the Hawaii Institute of Geophysics and Planetology (HIGP) in the University of Hawaii at Manoa School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology (SOEST).
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To the surprise of many planetary scientists, the oxidized iron mineral hematite has been discovered at high latitudes on the Moon. That's according to a study published in Science Advances led by Shuai Li, an assistant researcher at the Hawaii Institute of Geophysics and Planetology (HIGP) in the University of Hawaii at Manoa School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology (SOEST).
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