There have been many missions that have been carried out on the Moon for decades in order to obtain samples of it and try to better understand our only satellite. Today, samples are still being studied that were obtained from the lunar surface almost 50 years ago. Probably the best known missions on the Moon were those carried out with the Apollo missions, made by the United States. However, it seemed unthinkable to solve one of the mysteries of the Moon after so long thanks to the study of these samples, and it could be that the moon has never had a magnetic field as if you thought you had.
Samples of lunar glass could lead to this conclusion, after a study done by scientists from the University of Rochester.
The Moon may never have had a magnetic field
These have discovered together with other institutions something that could change the resources that could be found in the future on the Moon. The main objective of the investigation was to find out if our satellite has had at some point in its life some kind of magnetic field.
It has always been thought that the moon had a magnetic field for hundreds of millions of years, but the studies of scientists now call into question this first thought. These studies could represent a new panorama to know the reality on the possible magnetic field of the Moon.
The idea that has always been had from the beginning is that the Moon had a magnetic field after a series of data that They were obtained in the 1970s. This conclusion was reached after analyzing lunar samples extracted at that time. These samples had magnetization, hence the conclusion that was drawn.
The small size of the Moon It makes it difficult to do tests to drive this supposed magnetic field that the satellite has. The tests that were done they might not be very accurate when determining the presence of a magnetic field.
The new evidence seems conclusive
This new study reveals that the samples of lunar glass that were analyzed were exposed to a laser to increase the temperature of the samples and thus alter them. Then they used very precise mechanisms to measure the magnetism of samples with the highest possible precision.
The results were that the magnetization that showed could be cause by the impact of other objects space like a meteor, and not that magnetism was produced because there was a magnetic shield.
Therefore, after these results, scientists believe that the evidence is pretty clear and the Moon would never have had a magnetic field.