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There will Active Volcanoes in the Moon

Imagine looking up into the sky every night and saw the red smoke from the volcano on the lunar surface. Well, according to new research paper published in Nature Geosciences, that in future people can see a sight like that.

Using the latest information gathered by the tool is installed during the Apollo missions. Renee Weber Project of the Marshall Space Flight Center said that approximately 30 percent of the lining around the Moon on the Moon's core is liquid metal.


Regarding the absence of an active volcano on the Moon today, this is because the moon was 'dead' and the fact that the last eruption occurred took place billions of years ago. But that does not mean it will be lost forever, because a group of scientists led by Parker and Mirjam van Kan Wim van Westrenen from VU University Amsterdam may have found the answer.

Because humans can not access the lava, the researchers solved the puzzle with an ingenious way. First they have some 350 kilograms of rock samples brought back by Apollo msisi. Then put the stones in the same condition as experienced by the molten lava of the Moon.

Then after creating artificial lava, eventually created from the data with computer simulations of the Moon is known that the magma is rich in titanium, making it too heavy to flow to the surface. Lava should be lighter than the surrounding in order to erupt to the surface.

So when in the future, the cold lava that would change the composition and will be less dense than the surrounding areas. With the lighter magma, could more easily move to the surface and form an active volcano on the Moon.

Surely it would be a beautiful sight, but likely no one can see that because this process will take millions of years



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