Researchers from the Lunar and Planetary Laboratory of the University of Arizona have presented a new hypothesis about the past of the Earth’s natural satellite, which could explain one strange lunar paradox. Back in the 1970s, when the first samples of local minerals were delivered from the Moon, scientists noticed an abnormally high content of ilmenites among them. These are heavy, titanium- and iron-rich rocks that are usually found closer to the planet’s core.
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Ilmenites can rise from the subsurface to the surface as a result of seismic processes, but this is a rare phenomenon and their content in the upper rocks is always small. On the Moon everything is different – one gets the impression that its interior was inexplicably turned to the surface. As if some phenomenon ‘turned inside out’ the cosmic body.
