Minerals found in craters on the Moon may be remnants of asteroids that slammed into it and not, as long believed, the satellite’s innards exposed by such impacts, a study said Sunday.
The findings, published in the journal Nature Geoscience, cast doubt on the little we knew of what the Moon is actually composed of.
It had long been thought that meteoroids vaporise on impact with large celestial bodies.
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