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A two-billion-year history for the lunar dynamo

Science Advances (2017) 3(8)
DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.1700207
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Magnetic studies of lunar rocks indicate that theMoon generated a core dynamo with surface field intensities of ∼20 to 110 μT between at least 4.25 and 3.56 billion years ago (Ga). The field subsequently declined to

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Tikoo, S. M., Weiss, B. P., Shuster, D. L., Suavet, C., Wang, H., & Grove, T. L. (2017). A two-billion-year history for the lunar dynamo. Science Advances, 3(8). https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.1700207

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