Moon is older than we think

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Moon is older than we think
Moon might be older than we think

Moon has been a matter of curiosity for human kind for years and even though we have learned enough there are still things to understand about it. Scientists have announced that most of the Moon's surface is about 200 million years older than we previously thought.

Moon is older than we think

Moon is older than we think

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We have learned more about space and planets in the last couple years and even researches on Moon continue to surprise us. Researchers studying craters in our nearest neighbor say they're updating information on how they formed and are actually much older than previously thought.

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Scientists from Norway and France made the discovery after finding a new way to coordinate and calibrate the different systems used to determine when the lunar surface occurred. 

Stephanie Werner, a faculty member at the Center for Planetary Habitability at the University of Oslo and presenting the work at the Goldschmidt Geochemistry Conference in Lyon, said: "By looking at the traces of these collisions on the Moon, we can see what the Earth would have been like had it not been for the geological upheaval in plate tectonics that occurred on Earth. Our studies have revealed that large parts of the Moon's crust are about 200 million years older than previously thought."

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