Wednesday, November 16, 2011

Recipe for the Moon’s Magnetic Field: Spin and Stir

Recipe for the Moon’s Magnetic Field: Spin and Stir

When astronauts from the 1969 Apollo 11 mission returned to Earthwith about 50 pounds of lunar rocks and soil, scientists were surprised to find that some of the samples were magnetized. TheMoon has no magnetic field, so it must have had an unknown magnetic past.

No comments:

Post a Comment