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geologists, which planetary scientists are now translating to the moon. And that's not where the similarities end — Gawronska told her colleagues that, based on her results,"lunar magmatic systems might mimic their terrestrial counterparts."
The Apollo missions specifically targeted young, fresh craters in the highlands, though, which are pretty rare, so Ireland worries that data isn't representative of what most of the moon is actually like. Recent work she shared at the conference confirms it, indicating that much of the moon's regolith is even deeper than what the Apollo experiments observed around the few young craters astronauts have visited to date.
Speaking of future missions, one is already planned to look into a different facet of lunar geology: the moon's magnetism. Sarah Vines, planetary scientist at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab in Maryland, is working on NASA's Lunar Vertex mission, a probe and rover combo. This project will explore magnetic rocks on the moon's surface, which are puzzling since currently the moon has no magnetic field to form them.
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