Long ago, the moon was molten. It was covered by a magma ocean. The moon had just formed, accreting from the debris spewed into space by the violent collision of Earth with a Mars-size planet.

When Pragyan probed the ingredients of this surface material, called regolith, it wound up boosting the idea that the Moon once harbored a subterranean magma ocean. The findings appear in a new ...

India's Chandrayaan-3 mission has uncovered evidence of a former magma ocean near the Moon's South Pole, a region previously unexplored in such detail 1. This discovery was made by the Pragyan ...

The findings back up a theory that magma formed the Moon's surface around 4.5 billion years ago. Remnants of the ocean were found by India’s historic Chandrayaan-3 mission that landed on the ...

The broad similarity in the chemical compositions of all these samples, despite the fact they came from very distant geographical locations on the Moon, supports the idea that a single magma ocean ...

The presence of similar rocks in different parts of the moon lends additional support to the decades-old hypothesis that the moon was once covered by an ancient ocean of magma, the study authors said.

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India's lunar mission found remnants of a magma ocean on the south pole The Moon’s south pole was once covered in an ocean of liquid molten rock, according to scientists. The findings back up a ...

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