There was once a huge ocean of hot and molten rocks on the moon. That is, there was lava inside and outside the moon. This has been revealed by Indian scientists. Scientists analyzed the chemical data obtained from Chandrayaan-3. After this, this was confirmed. After the formation of the moon, the moon was covered with hot lava for many years.
This study was recently Nature It has been published in the journal. There was an ocean of hot lava (magma) on the entire moon. This was a few million years after the formation of the moon. The happy thing is that this study has come at a time when the whole country is going to celebrate the anniversary of Chandrayaan-3’s successful landing on the south pole of the moon.
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This year, the first National Space Day is being celebrated to celebrate the successful landing of Chandrayaan-3. Now this day will be celebrated in this way every year. Santosh V. Vadavale, a geologist at the Ahmedabad-based Physical Research Laboratory (PRL), said that our instruments have proved that there was a Lunar Magma Ocean (LMO) on the moon.
When the moon was formed 200 million years ago, this was a hot lava ocean
Vadavale said that our instrument installed in Chandrayaan-3 analyzed the data received from South Pole and other moon missions. Only then this thing came to light. There was a theory about the formation of the moon that when it was formed 200 million years ago, there was an ocean of hot molten rocks around it. That is, of lava.
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As the moon cooled down, these lavas turned into rocks. That is why similar rocks are found at most places on the moon. Or similar metals and minerals. Even changing the area does not make much difference. This mystery of the moon has been revealed by the Alpha Particle X-ray Spectrometer installed in Chandrayaan-3.
The highest amount of magnesium is present on the moon, Pragyan Rover’s investigation will benefit from this
Chandrayaan-3 landed near the south pole of the moon on 23 August last year. After that, Chandrayaan’s lander and rover worked for 9 days. Pragyan rover covered a distance of 103 meters around Shiv-Shakti point. During this time, it stopped at 23 places and examined minerals, soil and stones.
PRL director Anil Bhardwaj said that during its journey, Pragyan Rover examined the surface for a maximum of 175 minutes. The minimum time was 20 minutes. This showed that the amount of magnesium on the moon is very high. Other minerals were also found in it, but they have come up from inside the moon.
Scientists from PRL, UR Rao Satellite Centre, Space Application Centre Ahmedabad and Hemvati Nandan Bahuguna University Srinagar are also involved in this study.
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