An extreme heating event may have interfered with scientists’ attempts to figure out the Moon’s age by dating lunar rock samples.
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Before sending humans to Mars, NASA will first return humans to the Moon’s surface to test its technology and train astronauts.
Volcanic Moon rocks collected by a Chinese probe last year are around 2 billion years old, a new analysis shows. That’s a billion years younger than those brought back by the Apollo and Luna missions.
