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The moon

The moon's magnetic field may have been altered by huge sinking rocks

13 January 2022

There’s a new explanation for the moon’s former magnetic field, and it involves 60-kilometre-wide slabs of rock sinking through the lunar mantle
The moon may never actually have had a strong magnetic field

The moon may never actually have had a strong magnetic field

4 August 2021

We used to think that the moon had a strong magnetic field like Earth's, but a new analysis of rocks collected by the Apollo missions suggests that previous signs of magnetism came from asteroid impacts instead

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