While the moon once had a weak magnetic field generated by a small molten core, the team's research suggests it likely wouldn ...

A combination of a dynamo-generated magnetic field and massive impacts could explain the highly magnetized rocks in some ...

Some lunar rocks have left scientists puzzled for decades. Despite the Moon having no global magnetic field today, samples ...

Lunar magnetic anomalies have been a mystery since the Apollo era. Moon has always intrigued stargazers and astronomers. There are more hidden things about Earth's satellite than what is known.

The GRAIL mission (Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory) discovered gravitational anomalies on the Moon, whereby one of the spacecraft would accelerate while flying over certain regions.

Our Earth's Moon is almost completely covered in dust ... dust and presumably exhibit unique properties -- such as magnetic anomalies. The scientists' most important finding is that only very ...

The moon, however, does have inconsistencies in its gravitational field because of "Bouguer" gravity anomalies. NASA's GRAIL mission measured these mass anomalies which result from "either ...

Anomalies in the moon's gravitational field have been known for some time. Typically, mission planners view them as a nuisance to be avoided, as they can cause satellite orbits to degrade more ...

Anomalies in the moon’s gravitational field suggest our satellite’s insides are warmer on one side than the other – which means that its interior is asymmetric ...

In the new study, the authors compared simulations of a sinking ilmenite-rich layer to a set of linear gravity anomalies detected by NASA's GRAIL mission, whose two spacecraft orbited the moon ...

More information: Pekka Janhunen, Launching mass from the Moon helped by lunar gravity anomalies, arXiv (2024). DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2410.09616 Provided by Universe Today ...