Finally, Scientists Solve the Mystery of the Moon's Geology

Finally, Scientists Solve the Puzzle of Lunar Geology.

The following is the translation of the 'Bahasa' text to 'English' while preserving the html tags: A sufficiently high concentration of titanium (Ti) elements on the surface of the Moon has been known since NASA's Apollo missions in the 1960s and 1970s, which successfully returned frozen lava samples from the lunar crust. Recent mapping by orbiting satellites shows that this magma, known as high-titanium basalt, is widely distributed on the Moon.

Through a series of high-temperature laboratory experiments using molten rock and advanced isotopic analysis of lunar samples, Professor Tim Elliott from the University of Bristol and his colleagues identified critical reactions that control the composition of this typical magma. These reactions occurred in the Moon's core about 3.5 billion years ago, involving the exchange of iron elements in the magma with magnesium elements in the surrounding rocks, modifying the chemical and physical properties of the melt.

"The origin of volcanic rocks on the Moon is an interesting story, involving 'landslides' from unstable piles of crystals on a planetary scale created by the cooling of primitive magma oceans," said Professor Elliott.

"It is important to limit the epic history of this is the existence of a unique type of magma for the Moon, but explaining how the magma could even reach the surface, to be taken by a space mission, is a difficult problem. Glad to be able to solve this dilemma."

"So far, models have not been able to create a magma composition that is suitable for the important chemical and physical characteristics of high-Ti basalts,"

According to Dr. Martijn Klaver, a researcher at the Institute of Mineralogy at the University of Münster.

"Especially difficult to explain is their low density, which allowed them to explode about three and a half billion years ago."

Finally, Scientists Solve the Mystery of the Moon's Geology

"We successfully imitated high-Ti basalt in the laboratory process using high-temperature experiments," said the researchers.

"Measurement of high-Ti basalt also reveals distinctive isotopic compositions that provide fingerprints of reactions reproduced by the experiments."
"The two results clearly demonstrate the integral role of the melt-solid reaction in understanding the formation of this unique magma."

This finding is published today in the Nature Geoscience journal.

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Finally, Scientists Solve the Puzzle of Lunar Geology.

"The origin of volcanic rocks on the Moon is an interesting story, involving 'landslides' from unstable piles of crystals on a planetary scale created by the cooling of primitive magma oceans," said Professor Elliott.

"So far, models have not been able to create a magma composition that is suitable for the important chemical and physical characteristics of high-Ti basalts,"

"Measurement of high-Ti basalt also reveals distinctive isotopic compositions that provide fingerprints of reactions reproduced by the experiments.""The two results clearly demonstrate the integral role of the melt-solid reaction in understanding the formation of this unique magma."

"Measurement of high-Ti basalt also reveals distinctive isotopic compositions that provide fingerprints of reactions reproduced by the experiments."
"The two results clearly demonstrate the integral role of the melt-solid reaction in understanding the formation of this unique magma."