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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This discovery supports the lunar magma ocean (LMO) hypothesis As India prepares to mark its first National Space Day on August 23, commemorating the historic landing of Chandrayaan-3 on the Moon's ...

This supports the lunar magma ocean hypothesis. The findings came from the Alpha Particular X-Ray Spectrometer measurements at the site. NEW DELHI: Just ahead of the National Space Day on Friday ...

The consensus among scientists is that these anorthosite rocks could be the remains of an ancient ocean of magma that blanketed the moon’s surface some four billion years ago. Data from Pragyan ...

The results – released on Wednesday in a study published in Nature - came from 23 sets of chemical measurements of the lunar soil carried out by an instrument aboard the Pragyan rover during the ...

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 ...

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.

As Santosh Vadawale, the lead author on the paper, explains to Popular Science, one key aspect of the theory is the “lunar magma ocean hypothesis.” The energy released by the cataclysmic ...

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 ...