What the Moon Rocks Were Hiding

Olivine basalt collected from the rim of Hadley Rille by the crew of Apollo 15 (Credit : NASA/Wknight94)

The rocks that twelve astronauts carried home from the Moon fifty years ago have just rewritten our understanding of lunar history. A new analysis of Apollo samples has finally resolved one of the most stubborn debates in planetary science and the answer turns out to be one that neither side of the argument was entirely right about.

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