The History of The Sun Could Be Hidden On The Moon. Here's Why
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- 19 Sep 2022
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That's the recommendation of a team of scientists who hope to harness future Artemis lunar missions to help understand the life history of our home star.
The Sun has always influenced all the bodies in the Solar System. Not only do we receive heat and light from the Sun, but also a constant rain of high-energy particles and solar wind.
And this isn't just happening today, but has happened every single day for the past 4.5 billion years.
On planets like Earth, however, we've lost the ancient history of the Sun's influence on us. The weathering from wind, the erosion from water, and the constant cycles of plate tectonics take any alterations that the Sun might have made on our crust and either blown it away or buried it deep within our mantle.
But dead worlds are much better record keepers, according to a new white paper recently appearing on the preprint journal arXiv.
And since the Moon is the nearest dead world to us, and the target of the Artemis series of missions, we should go looking there. Read More…
