ArticleScience advances2021
Absence of a long-lived lunar paleomagnetosphere.
Article in Science advances, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers.
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- Magmatic origin of the Dewar magnetic anomaly: Implications for an early lunar dynamo.Science advances · 2026Article
- Moon's farside near-zero paleomagnetic field suggests a global lunar dynamo cessation.Science advances · 2026Article
- Microscopic magnetic-field imaging of a single lunar dust grain.Fundamental research · 2026Article
- Magnetic signatures and origins of ferromagnetic minerals in Chang'e-6 lunar farside soils.Nature communications · 2025Article
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- Persistent but weak magnetic field at the Moon's midstage revealed by Chang'e-5 basalt.Science advances · 2025Article
- Terrestrial atmospheric ion implantation occurred in the nearside lunar regolith during the history of Earth's dynamo.Communications earth & environment · 2025Article
- Dataset of replicate Apollo sample magnetizations bearing on impacts and absence of a long-lived lunar dynamo.Scientific data · 2024Article
- A lunar core dynamo limited to the Moon's first ~140 million years.Communications earth & environment · 2024Article
- Diverse glasses revealed from Chang'E-5 lunar regolith.National science review · 2023Article
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Abstract
Determining the presence or absence of a past long-lived lunar magnetic field is crucial for understanding how the Moon's interior and surface evolved. Here, we show that Apollo impact glass associated with a young 2 million-year-old crater records a strong Earth-like magnetization, providing evidence that impacts can impart intense signals to samples recovered from the Moon and other planetary bodies. Moreover, we show that silicate crystals bearing magnetic inclusions from Apollo samples formed at ∼3.9, 3.6, 3.3, and 3.2 billion years ago are capable of recording strong core dynamo-like fields but do not. Together, these data indicate that the Moon did not have a long-lived core dynamo. As a result, the Moon was not sheltered by a sustained paleomagnetosphere, and the lunar regolith should hold buried
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