{"id":6777,"date":"2021-12-19T16:39:50","date_gmt":"2021-12-19T16:39:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/all-news\/new-knowledge-about-moons-history-obtained-via-apollo-lunar-sample-study"},"modified":"2021-12-19T19:57:12","modified_gmt":"2021-12-19T19:57:12","slug":"new-knowledge-about-moons-history-obtained-via-apollo-lunar-sample-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/all-news\/new-knowledge-about-moons-history-obtained-via-apollo-lunar-sample-study","title":{"rendered":"New Knowledge About Moon&#8217;s History Obtained Via Apollo Lunar Sample Study"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Rwanda. <\/strong><\/span>The researchers\u2019 findings may change the \u201coutlook on how an important suite of lunar rocks formed,\u201d the study lead said. Scientists at the University of Hawai\u2019i at Manoa have managed to gain new insight into the history of Earth\u2019s only natural satellite, the Moon.<\/p>\n<p>According to an article posted on the UH Manoa School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology (SOEST) website, the new findings were derived from analysis of troctolite 76535 , rock sample retrieved from the Moon back in 1972 by the Apollo 17 mission.<\/p>\n<p>The team analyzed a large number of \u201ccomputer-simulated cooling paths,\u201d with Nelson saying that \u201cthe simulations revealed that these heterogeneities could only survive a relatively short period of time at high temperatures.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The diffusion patterns that were observed by researchers in the sample were \u201cconsistent with a rapid cooling history of no more than 20-million-years at high temperatures,\u201d the article notes, which challenges the previous 100-million year estimates of the cooling duration and \u201csupports initial rapid cooling of magmas within the lunar crust.\u201d The team has since moved to determine whether similar heterogeneities are present in other samples retrieved by Apollo from the Moon.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\">Rwanda<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Rwanda. The researchers\u2019 findings may change the \u201coutlook on how an important suite of lunar rocks formed,\u201d the study lead said. Scientists at the University of Hawai\u2019i at Manoa have managed to gain new insight into the history of Earth\u2019s only natural satellite, the Moon. 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