Extent of Moon’s giant volcanic eruption

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Extent of Moon’s giant volcanic eruption is revealed

Scientists have produced a new map of the Moon’s most unusual volcano showing that its explosive eruption spread debris over an area much greater than previously thought.

A team of astronomers and geologists, led by experts in the Institute for Computational Cosmology and Department of Earth Sciences at Durham University, UK, studied an area of the lunar surface in the Compton-Belkovich Volcanic Complex.

By mapping the radioactive element thorium which spewed out during the eruption they discovered that, with the help of the Moon’s low gravity, debris from the unnamed volcano was able to cover an area the size of Scotland, or around 70,000km².

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