According to reports, Santosh Wadawale of Ahmedabad -based Physical Research Laboratory (PRL) and his team have discovered that the outer layer of the soil of the moon around the landing site, called Regolith, had a uniform elemental structure, which was mainly made of Ferroon ENRROON ANOTHOSITE).
The team of scientists has also discovered evidence of the Moon having a magma ocean near the southern pole, which must have been there in the past. According to the Times of India report, scientists have said that the results of Chandrayaan-3 data have confirmed the imagination of the Magma Ocean on the moon.
This means that the moon’s mental was formed when the heavy metal was immersed inward and light rocks floated on the surface, which created the outer surface of the moon. This study has been published in Journal Nature. This information has been obtained from the data sent from the Alpha Particular X-ray spectrometer (APXS) on the payload of Pragyan Rover. The Apxs was prepared by the PRL scientists. It was designed to test the soil of the moon.
When it was formed, how was the moon?
It is a concept that when the moon was formed, it was completely Magma’s Ocean. As the magma cooled, heavy minerals were drowned, making the inside layer of the moon. Heavy minerals consisted of Olivine and Pyroxin. Whereas plagoclasses such as light minerals began to swim there, causing the outer layer of the moon.
Magma is a melted rock under the ground. It may contain some solid rocky pieces and volcanic gas mix.
