Volcanoes were still erupting on the moon during Earth’s dinosaur age ... updating previous assessments that there had been ...
You need heat in order for volcanoes to happen, and 120 million years ago, the moon shouldn’t have had enough heat — or so we thought. The heat for the Moon’s original volcanic activity ...
Astronomers have yet to confirm the existence of exomoons, but molecular signal around a far away star offers some of the ...
Their chemical makeup indicates that there were active lunar volcanoes until about 120 million ... Existing time lines suggest the moon had already cooled off past the point of volcanic activity ...
A study published in Science on September 5 called this idea into question with evidence suggesting the moon had active volcanoes as recently as 120 million years ago. The moon’s volcanic ...
Researchers at Cornell University have leveraged the intense volcanic activity on Jupiter's moon Io to advance our ...
With that tidal deformation, it creates a lot of internal heat within the moon ... to scope out Io's volcanoes. The scientists found that both pole regions had active volcanoes.