Indigenous noble gases in the Moon's interior.
- Resource Type
- Article
- Authors
- Will, Patrizia; Busemann, Henner; Riebe, My E. I.; Maden, Colin
- Source
- Science Advances. 8/12/2022, Vol. 8 Issue 32, p1-8. 8p.
- Subject
- *KRYPTON
*LUNAR craters
*NOBLE gases
*INTERNAL structure of the Earth
*SCIENCE conferences
*METEORITES
*SPACE sciences
*MOON
- Language
- ISSN
- 2375-2548
The article reports that The origin of volatiles in the Moon's interior is debated. Scenarios range from inheritance through a Moon-forming disk or "synestia" to late accretion by meteorites or comets. Noble gases are excellent tracers of volatile origins. We report analyses of all noble gases in paired, unbrecciated lunar mare basalts and show that magmatic glasses therein contain indigenous noble gases including solar-type He and Ne.