Cooled magma deposits have been discovered under a lunar volcano that likely erupted 3.5 billion years ago.
. The data produced by the orbiter allowed the team to measure temperatures below the surface of Compton-Belkovich. The data showed heat being generated that could only come from radioactive elements that only exist on the moon as granite — an igneous rock found in the"plumbing" of volcanoes as"batholith," underground rock formations created when magma cools without erupting.
The formation of granite on Earth is usually the result of water and plate tectonics creating large areas of melted rock called melt bodies beneath our planet's surface. Though common on Earth, granites are much scarcer on the moon as a result of the absence of both water and plate tectonics. That means this discovery could point toward the conditions locally or globally found on the moon when it was host to volcanic activity.
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