The moon may be much older than previously thought, according to a new study. Planetary scientists believe the moon's surface may have "remelted" around 4.35 billion years ago, masking much older lunar features beneath.

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Old moon, young crust: Violent volcanism may mean the moon is much older than previously thought

Scientists estimate the moon's age using rock samples - but a new study suggests the surface of the rocks could be hiding much older lunar features beneath.

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Moon may be much older than thought because of 'remelting' surface

Early interactions with the Earth may have heated up the Moon and caused it to remelt, producing new lunar rocks and erasing old craters.

National Public Radio, Inc

Washington

District of Columbia

United States

You don't look a day over 4.35 billion! Here's the moon's anti-aging secret

A new study suggests the moon is older than previously thought. and that rock samples from its surface have been incorrectly interpreted.

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City of Perth

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Australia

New study suggests moon older than previously thought

The surface of the moon cooled 4.35 billion years ago. This established the age of the Earth's satellite. But now there are signs that it is even older.

Die Oberfläche des Mondes erkaltete vor 4,35 Milliarden Jahren. Damit stand das Alter des Erdtrabanten fest. Doch jetzt gibt es Anzeichen, dass er noch älter ist.

Weltraum: Mond offenbar älter als bisher angenommen

Zeit Online

Holtzbrinck Publishing Group

Germany

Space: Moon apparently older than previously thought

A new study published Wednesday in the journal Nature shows that the Moon is 80 to 180 million years older than previous estimates.

Un nou studiu publicat miercuri în revista Nature arată că Luna are o vârstă cu 80 până la 180 de milioane de ani mai mare decât estimările precedente.

Ce vârstă are, de fapt, Luna. Studiul care a demontat estimările precedente

Adevarul

Romania

How old is the Moon? The study that debunked previous estimates

Within the scientific community, there have been disagreements about the moon’s precise age for decades

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The moon may be more than 100 million years older than previously thought, study finds

Although the Moon still holds many mysteries, there are two aspects of its origin that seem to be generally accepted by scientists: the satellite was born as the result of the collision between the Earth and a protoplanet they have called Theia. This is only a hypothesis, but several clues, such as the discovery of material from another planet in the Earth’s mantle, support it. The other thing on which there is relative consensus is that this co…

El Pais

PRISA

Spain

New research suggests the Moon may have formed very shortly after the Earth

After its formation, the moon may have been the scene of such immense volcanic activity that its entire crust melted several times and was completely churned through. At that time, the moon orbited significantly closer to Earth than today. The resulting tidal forces heated up its interior and thus powered the violent volcanism. Only Jupiter's moon Io, by far the most volcanically active body in the solar system, offers comparable conditions.

About 4 billion years ago, the Solar System was an extraordinarily violent place.Remnants of the recent formation of the Sun collided with each other everywhere, merged and grew to give rise to the planets, and all disputed the orbital positions that today occupy the few survivors of those convulsive times.The Earth, of course, did not get rid of that time of continuous collisions.The greatest of them was with a candidate for planet that already…

Hace alrededor de 4.000 millones de años, el Sistema Solar era un lugar extraordinariamente violento. Restos de la reciente formación del Sol chocaban entre sí por todas partes, se fusionaban y crecían para dar lugar a los planetas, y todos se disputaban las posiciones orbitales que hoy ocupan los escasos supervivientes de aquellos tiempos convulsos.La Tierra, por supuesto, no se libró de esa época de colisiones continuas. La mayor de todas ella…

La Luna 'maquilló' su edad y es en realidad mucho más antigua de lo que creíamos

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The moon 'masked' her age and is actually much older than we thought.

The moon is 4.35 billion years old - that is the current theory. But according to a new study, this is wrong. Scientists from the USA, France and Germany have examined the Earth's satellite and recalculated its age. It is probably much older.

Der Mond ist 4,35 Milliarden Jahre alt - so lautet die gängige Theorie. Doch die ist laut einer neuen Studie falsch. Die Wissenschaftler aus den USA, Frankreich und Deutschland haben den Erdtrabanten untersucht und sein Alter neu berechnet. Er ist wohl um einiges älter.

Moon may be much older than thought because of 'remelting' surface

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