Gallium in lunar samples explains loss of moon's easily vaporized elements
Monday, July 31, 2017 - 11:02
in Astronomy & Space
A pair of researchers with Institut Universitaire de France has found more evidence of a large evaporative event in the moon's past. In their paper published on the open access site Science Advances, Chizu Kato and Frédéric Moynier describe their study of gallium isotopes from lunar samples, what they found, and why they believe it sheds some light on how the moon was formed.