re: 2 failed moon landings (south side issues...)

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Scientists detected a metal "anomaly" deep beneath the lunar surface It's more likely to be from asteroids than benevolent aliens. lunar surface with metal anomaly
By Sarah Wells on December 14, 2019 Filed Under China, NASA & Science Fiction I

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n June 2019, scientists discovered something strange buried 180 miles beneath the lunar surface. While the discovery does sound eerily similar to the beginning of Stanley Kubrick’s film, 2001: A Space Odyssey, scientists have a much more scientific explanation for this particular anomaly. Instead of an alien monolith, scientists think that it is actually an estimated 4.8 quintillion pounds of metal — a deposit formed from leftover shrapnel from an asteroid impact.

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When we combined [that data] with lunar topography data from the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, we discovered the unexpectedly large amount of mass hundreds of miles underneath the South Pole-Aitken basin,” James said. “One of the explanations of this extra mass is that the metal from the asteroid that formed this crater is still embedded in the Moon’s mantle.” Using computer simulations of an asteroid impact, the scientists determined that it would be possible for the iron-nickel core of such an asteroid to be dispersed into the upper lunar mantel (between its core and crust.)

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