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What Craters on the Moon Teach Us About Earth

January 10, 2013

Want to stay on top of all the space news? Follow @universetoday on Twitter When the Moon was receiving its highest number of impacts, so was Earth. Credit: Dan Durda Some questions about our own planet are best answered by looking someplace else entirely… in the case of impact craters and when, how and how [...]

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Scientists Suggest Evidence of Recent Lunar Volcanism

April 14, 2012

A team of researchers at India’s Physical Research Laboratory (PRL) claims it has found evidence of relatively recent volcanic activity on the Moon, using data from NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter and the Chadrayaan-1 spacecraft. According to the findings the central peak of Tycho crater contains features that are volcanic in origin, indicating that the Moon [...]

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A Peek at a Pitch-Black Pit

March 19, 2012

MESSENGER captured this high-resolution image of an elongated pit crater within the floor of the 355-km (220-mile) -wide crater Tolstoj on Mercury on Jan. 11, 2012. The low angle of sun illumination puts the interior of the pit crater into deep shadow, making it appear bottomless. Remove this ad

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Tranquillityite – Moon Mineral Found In Western Australia

January 7, 2012

When it comes to our natural human curiosity, we want to know if there’s something new out there… something we haven’t discovered yet. That’s why when lunar rock samples were returned, geologists were thrilled to find very specific minerals – armalcolite, pyroxferroite and tranquillityite – which belonged only to our Moon. However, over the years [...]

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Geodes

February 8, 2011

If you ever took any kind of natural science at school you will probably have seen a geode. However, what are they and how are they formed? Geodes are a kind of geological rock formation that can naturally occur in sedimentary and certain volcanic rocks. Most geodes look like normal rocks on the outside and [...]

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