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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 Indiaâs historic Chandrayaan-3 mission that landed on the south pole last August .

The findings back up a theory that magma formed the Moon 's surface around 4.5 billion years ago .

The team behind the new findings found evidence of ferroan anorthosite - or molten rock - in the lunar surface.

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