Carbon in the Moon

Bruno Scaillet (1)

1 ISTO - Institut des Sciences de la Terre d'Orléans - UMR7327

The Moon was once thought to be depleted in volatile elements. Analyses of the carbon contents of lunar volcanic glasses reveal that carbon monoxide degassing could have produced the fire-fountain eruptions from which these glasses were formed.

Domaines: Planète et Univers [physics]; Sciences de la Terre; Volcanologie

Bruno Scaillet. Carbon in the Moon. Nature Geoscience, 2015, 8, pp.747-748. ⟨10.1038/ngeo2530⟩. ⟨insu-01192577⟩