How the Moon Became Magnetized
Posted by brandoniswrite on November 10, 2011
Apollo 17 astronaut Harrison "Jack" Schmitt at Tracy Rock on the lunar surface. Credit: NASA. It’s been a mystery ever since the Apollo astronauts brought back samples of lunar rocks in the early 1970s. Some of the rocks had magnetic properties, especially one collected by geologist Harrison “Jack” Schmitt. But how could this happen? The [...]
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