Saturday, 26 January 2019

Apollo Astronauts May Have Found the Oldest Earth Rock We Know On the Moon

Apollo Astronauts May Have Found the Oldest Earth Rock We Know On the Moon

One of Earth's oldest rocks may have been dug up on the moon. A chunk of material brought back from the lunar surface by Apollo astronauts in 1971 harbors a tiny piece of Earth, a new study suggests. The Earth fragment was likely blasted off our planet by a powerful impact about 4 billion years ago, according to the new research.
Read more: https://www.space.com/43118-earth-oldest-rock-moon-apollo-14.html?utm_source=notification?source=Snapzu

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