MIT Scientists May Have Finally Solved the Moon’s Magnetic Mystery

MIT Scientists May Have Finally Solved the Moon’s Magnetic Mystery

A massive impact may have temporarily strengthened the Moon’s weak magnetic field, producing a short-lived surge that became preserved in certain lunar rocks. For decades, scientists have wrestled with a simple question: what happened to the Moon’s magnetism? Instruments on orbiting spacecraft once detected strong magnetic signatures in lunar surface rocks, indicating a powerful field [...]

Scientists Just Solved The Moon’s Biggest Mystery — And It Changes Everything

A new study published in Science Advances suggests that the long-standing enigma of the Moon’s magnetism may finally have a clear explanation. Researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) argue that the Moon once hosted a faint magnetic field, generated by a weak dynamo in its molten core, and that this field was dramatically amplified during massive asteroid impacts. Their simulations point to the formation of plasma clouds …