The Mystery of the Moon’s Missing Metals – Eos

Objects over 100 kilometers across slammed into the Moon to produce impact basins from several hundred to over 2,000 kilometers in diameter. This artist’s rendering captures the moment of first contact between one of those asteroids and the surface of the Moon. Credit: Leanne Woolley and David A. Kring, LPI

For decades, scientists have tried to figure out why the Moon has a thousand times less precious metals than Earth. Turns out the metals may not have been delivered after all… Read more about this article in the link below…

https://eos.org/articles/the-mystery-of-the-moons-missing-metals

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