Moon Has a Liquid Core, Suggests Apollo Era Seismic Sensors

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More than 40 years after Apollo astronauts left seismic sensors on the lunar surface, the data being emitted from them compiled with contemporary seismological techniques helped to determine that the moon now is believed to have a solid iron-rich inner core and a fluid, primarily liquid-iron outer core. The new research seems to show the moon could have had its own magnetic field, an evolved lunar dynamo. The lunar core contains light elements like sulfur, which in fact our Earth also contains in a layer around our own core shedding more truth that the moon and Earth in fact my be related. The research was published on the online edition of journal Science.

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