'A single magma ocean' once covered the moon, data from India's Chandrayaan-3 mission suggests
The moon was once engulfed by a massive magma ocean, analysis of geological samples collected by India's Chandrayaan-3 mission suggests.
Joshua Snape
Royal Society University Research Fellow, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Manchester
I am a research fellow at the University of Manchester, studying how the Moon and other planetary bodies evolved. My work involves the analysis of extraterrestrial materials (e.g. meteorites and samples returned by space missions) and performing experiments designed to simulate the conditions in evolving planets (e.g. high temperature and pressure). I completed my undergraduate and doctoral studies at University College London, followed by postdoctoral positions at the Open University, the Swedish Museum of Natural History, the VU Amsterdam.
