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A Buried Volcano on the Moon Hints At An Ancient Lunar Dynamo

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A Buried Volcano on the Moon Hints At An Ancient Lunar Dynamo, according to Universe Today. Scientists know for certain the moon doesn’t currently have a magnetosphere. But they’ve been debating for decades about whether it ever did.

Data from both Apollo samples and orbital scientific instruments have proven divisive, and so the debate still rages. But a new paper from researchers at ETH Zurich, DLR, and the Institute of Applied Geosciences hopes to resolve the debate once and for all - by definitively proving that the Moon did, indeed, once have a magnetic dynamo.

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