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blagie [28]
3 years ago
15

What do scientists believe the moon’s core might be formed of?

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umka2103 [35]3 years ago
3 0
<span>In 2010, scientists did a </span>reanalysis of the old Apollo seismic data and looked into the moon quakes (earthquakes on the moon) and discovered  the Moon has an iron core with a radius of 330 ± 20 km. The same reanalysis gave evidence that  the inner core of the moon was solid and was made of iron that has the radius of 240 ± 10 km. The core is surrounded by the somewhat melted layer of the lower mantle with a radius of <span>480 ± 20 km. </span>The temperature inside the core has been estimated to be about 1600 to1700 K. (In other words 2420.33 to 2600.33 F)


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