Moon Was Once A Fiery Ball Of Molten Rock

[ajay0]

The Moon we see today was once a hot and fiery ball of molten rock, as per scientists.

India's Chandrayaan-3 finds ancient magma ocean on Moon south pole

The findings are from India's historic Chandrayaan-3 mission that landed on the Moon's south pole.

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The Moon’s south pole was once covered in an ocean of liquid molten rock, according to scientists.

The findings back up a theory that magma formed the Moon's surface around 4.5 billion years ago.

Remnants of the ocean were found by India’s historic Chandrayaan-3 mission that landed on the south pole last August.

The mission explored this isolated and mysterious area where no craft had ever landed before.

The findings help back up an idea called the Lunar Magma Ocean theory about how the Moon formed.

Scientists think that when the Moon formed 4.5 billion years ago, it began to cool and a lighter mineral called ferroan anorthosite floated to the surface. This ferroan anorthosite - or molten rock - formed the moon’s surface.

The team behind the new findings found evidence of ferroan anorthosite in the south pole.

“The theory of early evolution of the Moon becomes much more robust in the light of our observations,” said Dr Santosh Vadawale from the Physical Research Laboratory, who is co-author of the paper published in Nature on Wednesday.

Before India’s mission, the main evidence of magma oceans was found in the mid-latitudes of the Moon as part of the Apollo programme.

 

[wellwisher]

An interesting inference is with the molten moon close to the early earth, and with the early earth cooling faster, due to its surface water, through evaporation and rain storms, eventually the hotter moon, would become a major weather and climate drive for the young earth.

That hotter ball of molten moon rock would, via radiational heating, heat the oceans, as it passes over, with the water then raining down behind as the moon passed. The atmosphere would be warmer with much more water load than today; atmospheric rivers and tides.

Unlike the phases of the moon from new to full, which are caused by the earth's shadow on the moon, the radiational heating would be just a hot regardless of the modern moon phases. The jet streams would be much faster. Today it is most lyjust gravity and tides.

 

[IndigoChild5559]

The Moon we see today was once a hot and fiery ball of molten rock, as per scientists.

India's Chandrayaan-3 finds ancient magma ocean on Moon south pole

The findings are from India's historic Chandrayaan-3 mission that landed on the Moon's south pole.

www.bbc.com

Yes, we do know now that the moon experienced volcanism. I'm not sure if I would say, "The moon was once a fiery ball of molten rock." Having large areas covered with the results of a volcanic eruption is just not the same thing as that.

 

[ajay0]

Yes, we do know now that the moon experienced volcanism. I'm not sure if I would say, "The moon was once a fiery ball of molten rock." Having large areas covered with the results of a volcanic eruption is just not the same thing as that.

Evidence of magma oceans were found in the mid-latitudes of the moon as part of the Apollo programme.

Chandrayaan-3 landing on the southern lunar polar region for the first time shed light on the fact that there were magma oceans over there too.

So the statement is not far removed from the truth.

 

[IndigoChild5559]

Evidence of magma oceans were found in the mid-latitudes of the moon as part of the Apollo programme.

Chandrayaan-3 landing on the southern lunar polar region for the first time shed light on the fact that there were magma oceans over there too.

So the statement is not far removed from the truth.

It's possible I may have misunderstood you. When you wrote "a fiery ball of molten rock" it appeared to say that the entire moon was molten rock all the way through.

 

[wellwisher]

Yes, we do know now that the moon experienced volcanism. I'm not sure if I would say, "The moon was once a fiery ball of molten rock." Having large areas covered with the results of a volcanic eruption is just not the same thing as that.

One of the main conclusions that is being over looked, is the moon volcanism now accounts for many of the craters, that were historically attributed to massive asteroid bombardment. This new discovery now requires a new count for each type. The asteroid era may not have been so impactful. Some early earth theories rely heavily on asteroids, but the moon now show less.

I always saw how these two type of craters looks so similar. But science models of the moon were not designed to support volcanoes. I would have been out of place to make my prediction back then. Science does catch up.

I like my extrapolated, early formation theory, of a hotter molten moon and the cooler earth, with the moon radiating lots of heat; volcanic, while the earth had lots of surface water to cool it faster. The effect of the hotter moon stage, would cause way more water in the atmosphere, than we have today. The moon would cause atmospheric tides, along with the ocean tides.

If you think about how the sun at 93 million miles feels hot, the molten moon at 240,000 miles will also be very toasty. Luckily, water has such a high heat capacity, that most of the earth's surface water would remain mostly liquified, with the opposite side of the earth, to moon, still cooling; torrential rains on the darker side of the earth. I can imagine the size of the hurricanes pulling cool air down.

This may be a good time for abiogenesis; lighting, water vapor and small gas molecules.

 

[The Hammer]

The Moon we see today was once a hot and fiery ball of molten rock, as per scientists.

India's Chandrayaan-3 finds ancient magma ocean on Moon south pole

The findings are from India's historic Chandrayaan-3 mission that landed on the Moon's south pole.

www.bbc.com

Considering the moon was probably created by an early impact separating a chunk off of a molten forming Earth, it makes sense.

 

[IndigoChild5559]

One of the main conclusions that is being over looked, is the moon volcanism now accounts for many of the craters, that were historically attributed to massive asteroid bombardment. This new discovery now requires a new count for each type. The asteroid era may not have been so impactful. Some early earth theories rely heavily on asteroids, but the moon now show less.

Exactly!

When I was at CSULB, I had the opportunity to study under a real genius. Usually when a scientist goes against the consensus, it indicates that they have an emotional agenda that interferes with their ability to interpret the data. But in very rare cases, what you have is a once in lifetime genius who can see how the dots connect even when only a few dots are present. Professor Jack Green was one such person. He presented evidence for volcanism back when the conventional wisdom was, as you note, that the craters were all formed by bombardment. He gets put into the same category as Wegener and Semmelweis.