Brown: Newly Returned Moon Rock Samples Chronicle the Dying Days of Lunar Volcanism
October 08, 2021
October 08, 2021
PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, Oct. 8 (TNSJou) -- Brown University issued the following news release:
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Jim Head, a planetary geologist at Brown, is working with colleagues from China to analyze rocks returned from the Chang'e 5 mission, which recently brought to Earth the first lunar samples retrieved in 45 years.
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Billions of years ago, lakes of lava on the surface of the Moon eventually dried to form the vast dark patches -- the lun . . .
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Jim Head, a planetary geologist at Brown, is working with colleagues from China to analyze rocks returned from the Chang'e 5 mission, which recently brought to Earth the first lunar samples retrieved in 45 years.
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Billions of years ago, lakes of lava on the surface of the Moon eventually dried to form the vast dark patches -- the lun . . .