Was the moon once a blisteringly hot world? Our lunar neighbour was once covered with an ocean of molten rock, data from India’s Chandrayaan-3 rover suggests

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Was the moon once a blisteringly hot world? Our lunar neighbour was once covered with an ocean of molten rock, data from India’s Chandrayaan-3 rover suggests

While the moon might now seem like a cold, dusty, desert, new evidence from India‘s Chandrayaan-3 mission has revealed this was not always the case. Analysis of the lunar surface shows that the moon’s south pole was once completely covered by an ocean of molten magma.  When Chandrayaan-3 landed near the moon’s south pole in August last year, India’s space agency gathered 23 measurements of a never-before-studied region. Their measurements discov…