"Japanese scientists have determined that a soft, hot core remains in the center of the moon, contrary to expectations.
A question resulting from a new model of the lunar interior made by scientists at the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan is, “how can the bottom of the lunar mantle maintain its softer state for a long time?” The researchers used measurements from their Selene orbiter to infer a hot core that should not be there.
Another article on tidal heating and lunar history was published by the University of California, Santa Cruz, ...tidal heating can preserve some of the primordial heat from the moon’s formation for a time, but heat is lost more rapidly from a small body than a large one. The problem is explained in the opening paragraph of the paper in Nature:
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A question resulting from a new model of the lunar interior made by scientists at the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan is, “how can the bottom of the lunar mantle maintain its softer state for a long time?” The researchers used measurements from their Selene orbiter to infer a hot core that should not be there.
Another investigator, Prof. Junichi Haruyama of Institute of Space and Aeronautical Science, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, mentioned the significance of this research, saying,
“A smaller celestial body like the Moon cools faster than a larger one like the Earth does. In fact, we had thought that volcanic activities on the Moon had already come to a halt. Therefore, the Moon had been believed to be cool and hard, even in its deeper parts. However, this research tells us that the Moon has not yet cooled and hardened, but is still warm."
Another article on tidal heating and lunar history was published by the University of California, Santa Cruz, ...tidal heating can preserve some of the primordial heat from the moon’s formation for a time, but heat is lost more rapidly from a small body than a large one. The problem is explained in the opening paragraph of the paper in Nature:
The theory of equilibrium figures of rotating fluid bodies is a classic problem in geophysics, and it has been helpful in understanding the shapes of the Sun and planets. However, the origin of the Moon’s shape has remained an open problem in the past century, and the body’s deviations from any simple tidal–rotational (spherical harmonic degree-2) figure are large. This difficulty is surprising given the Moon’s presumably simple early thermal history: born hot and quickly cooled, one might expect the Moon to be described by a simple figure of equilibrium." CEH
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