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India's Chandrayaan-3 finds ancient magma ocean on Moon south pole

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Remnants of the ocean were found by India ’s historic Chandrayaan-3 mission that landed on the south pole last August .

The findings back up an idea called the Lunar Magma Ocean theory.

Scientists think that when the Moon formed 4.5 billion years ago , it began to cool and a lighter mineral called ferroan anorthosite floated to the surface.

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