Information Times comprehensive report - According to British media on the 20th, seismometers installed by astronauts on the moon have shown that the moon has experienced multiple "moonquakes". Theoretically, there should have been countless volcanic eruptions. However, strangely, there are no active volcanoes on the moon. Now, scientists have finally solved this long-standing mystery, and the key is: a large amount of titanium on the moon.
The moon has long been called the "extinguished planet" because no traces of volcanic eruptions have been found on it. The question of "whether there were volcanic eruptions on the moon" has been a mystery that has puzzled astronomers for a long time. The geological research team of the University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands used the lunar rocks brought back by the Apollo moon landing astronauts as a blueprint and has been dedicated to studying the mystery of why there are no volcanic eruptions on the moon.
It was found that the titanium content in the rocks at the core of the moon is astonishing. Team leader Myriam Paker said that this explains why no volcanic activity has been detected on the moon. In the early large-scale volcanic eruptions, the moon brought a large number of surface rocks rich in titanium metal into its core. These titanium compounds reacted and formed magma, but this magma was too dense and heavy to erupt onto the surface of the moon, so volcanic eruptions no longer occurred. (Translated name: Wang Chang)