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New study measures titanium in Apollo rock to uncover Moon’s early chemistry

  • Written by Advik D. Vira, Graduate Student in Physics, Georgia Institute of Technology
imageThe Camelot crater in the Moon's Taurus-Littrow Valley is where the sample containing trivalent titanium was found.NASA/Apollo 17: AS17-145-22159

The Earth and the Moon may look very different today, but they formed under similar conditions in space. In fact, a dominant hypothesis says that the early Earth was hit by a Mars-sized object, and it was...

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