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SUBMITTER: Su B
PROVIDER: S-EPMC9586486 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Su Bin B Yuan Jiangyan J Chen Yi Y Yang Wei W Mitchell Ross N RN Hui Hejiu H Wang Hao H Tian Hengci H Li Xian-Hua XH Wu Fu-Yuan FY
Science advances 20221021 42
The Chang'E-5 (CE5) mission has demonstrated that lunar volcanism was still active until two billion years ago, much younger than the previous isotopically dated lunar basalts. How the small Moon retained enough heat to drive such late volcanism is unknown, particularly as the CE5 mantle source was anhydrous and depleted in heat-producing elements. We conduct fractional crystallization and mantle melting simulations that show that mantle melting point depression by the presence of fusible, easil ...[more]