Gallium in Lunar Samples Traces Loss of Moon's Easily Vaporized Elements (1 of 1) (IMAGE)

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Gallium in Lunar Samples Traces Loss of Moon's Easily Vaporized Elements (1 of 1)

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Artistic rendition of early stages of the Moon's formation. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the July 28, 2017, issue of Science Advances, published by AAAS. The paper, by C. Kato at Université Paris Diderot in Paris, France, and colleagues was titled, "Gallium isotopic evidence for extensive volatile loss from the Moon during its formation."

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[Credit: P-O Foucault]

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