Scientists discover huge, heat-emitting blob on the far side of the moon

[admin]

Scientists detected a peculiar blob of heat-emitting material buried on the far side of the moon. The most likely culprit is a rock that is very rare outside of Earth.

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[Majimoto]

If it is still thought that the moon resulted from detached mass from the Pacific Ocean area, as result of asteroid collision, then perhaps not surprising for residual magma to still be part of moon make up ??

 

[Wolf.Mom]

If it is still thought that the moon resulted from detached mass from the Pacific Ocean area, as result of asteroid collision, then perhaps not surprising for residual magma to still be part of moon make up??

I didn't know the details, but the same thought came to mind.

 

[gcherman56]

This makes sense when considering that the granitic crust was likely generated from a very-large impact that melted crustal rocks along deeply penetrating faults downrange of an oblique impact. My money is on the Mare Orientale foreland region. Impact tectogenesis baby!