Scientists Discover Large Mass of Heat-Emitting Granite on the Moon

Scientists Discover Large Mass of Heat-Emitting Granite on the Moon
A passenger plane passes in front of the moon as it makes its final landing approach to Heathrow Airport in London, Britain, on Sept. 12, 2019. Toby Melville/Reuters
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Scientists have discovered a heat-emitting mass of granite buried beneath the surface on the far side of the moon, which likely formed from a dormant volcano that last erupted over 3.5 billion years ago.

In a study published on July 5 in the journal Nature, scientists reported the discovery of a 50-kilometers-wide batholith—a type of volcanic rock formed when lava ascends into the Earth’s crust but does not erupt onto the surface—on the far side of the moon.

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