Apparently the soil composition of the Moon is as diverse as the stories, songs and poems that human beings have dedicated to the eternal companion of the earth, or at least that’s what we show the results of analysis the moon’s surface made by the vehicle during its travel Yutu al Mare Imbrium where he found signs of volcanic activity.
In December 2013, the Chinese probe Chang’e 3 (EC-3) reached the moon and descended to the surface, in a part in which no device had never gone down.
It had been 37 years since the last Earth mission will arrive until the celestial body at that time Russian scientists and Americans they delighted studying rocks Lunik 24 and Apollo collected.
From this, it was concluded that the rocks and sand found on the moon contained similar to the compounds of terrestrial soil, such as magnesium, silicon, iron items , titanium, calcium, chromium and nickel, says an article in the newspaper El Pais.
In his eagerness to expand China looked at the sky, he decided to return and continue analyzing the ground to reach more concrete conclusions about training and composition of the star.
Although Yutu, the vehicle of the mission, only worked 32 of the 114 days expected, he failed to find that the layer collected was different from that found in US and Russian their explorations, which mainly took place in the central part of the Moon.
But China and ventured further down in the Mare Imbrium, a part that we can see from Earth.
The Mare Imbrium is a circular body covered by basalt, although Yutu found no new chemical element, did discover that they are combined in a very different way from other parts studied.
This finding may be the start for desenmadejar lunar mysteries.
In this regard, the newspaper reported statements Jolliff Bradley, a professor at Washington University and co-author. “This diversity tells us that the upper mantle of the Moon is much less uniform in composition as the Earth. By correlating the chemical composition with age, we can see how was the volcanism of the Moon over time. “
Spectrometry by Chinese probe determined that basalt rocks found in the Mare Imbrium They are intermediate in titanium and iron-rich, thus it is determined that the lunar composition is not homogeneous and this may be that there was a great volcanic activity involved in their training.
The way crystallize Magma elements are reflected in the lunar soil and that would explain the volcanism that allegedly occurred in the star.
“The variable distribution of titanium in the lunar surface suggesting that the interior of the moon was not homogeneous. We are still investigating as it could be. Possibly have large impacts during the magma that interfered with the formation of the mantle, “said Jolliff.
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