Melt Mineralogy (IMAGE)

Brown University

Melt Mineralogy

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Scientists had long assumed that large impacts on the Moon would wipe out any distinguishable mineralogy that was there before the impact. But a mineralogical feature discovered by researchers at Brown University in Copernicus crater shows that some of that mineralogy can survive. The results may force a rethinking of the cratering process.

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NASA/Deepak Dhingra/Brown University

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