The meter-high rocks discovered in the work are located near the Reiner K crater in the ’Reiner Gamma’ region, which has a magnetic anomaly.
The meter-high rocks discovered in the work are located near the Reiner K crater in the 'Reiner Gamma' region, which has a magnetic anomaly. NASA LRO/NAC - A research team from the University of Münster has discovered for the first time meter-sized rocks on the surface of the moon that are covered in dust and presumably have unique properties - magnetic anomalies, for example. The findings help to understand the processes that form and change the lunar crust. The study has now been published in the "Journal of Geophysical Research - Planets". Our Earth's Moon is almost completely covered in dust. Unlike on Earth, this dust is not smoothed by wind and weather, but is sharp-edged and also electrostatically charged. This dust has been studied since the Apollo era at the end of the 1960s.
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