FAR from being a dead lump of rock, the Moon may still be alive. The claim
may spark a new interest in missions to the Moon.
We believe our Moon formed about 4 billion years ago, when a Mars-sized
planet hit the Earth and released debris. Researchers believe any early volcanic
activity has long since ceased.
But Peter Schultz of Brown University in Rhode Island disagrees. The
composition and brightness of Ina, a region 25 kilometres across in the Moon’s
northern hemisphere, suggests that it formed just a few million years ago and
that bombardment by micrometeorites has not yet…
