Moon’s magnetic pull lasted longer than thought, lunar rocks reveal
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A new analysis of samples collected by China’s Chang’e-5 mission reveals that the Moon possessed a weak dynamo magnetic field, but still active about 2 billion years ago. According to researchers led by the Institute of Geology and Geophysics (IGG) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, who analyzed nine basalt samples returned by Chang’e-5 from the Oceanus Procellarum in the middle latitudes of the Moon, understanding the strength, structure and e…