Revealing the secret half-moon of the Moon

The Moon always hides its other side. What is the shape? What's special? The answer is clear.

>>>The violent evolution of the Moon

Scientists have recently suggested that the other half of the Moon is volcanic activity about 800 million years ago.

The authors analyzed the data obtained by the LRO Exploration Station. The machines on the station recorded a "suspicious" creation between two large cracks - Compton and Belkovitch marks - from the back of the satellite, which could never be seen from Earth. Formation has an arched structure with inclined steps.

Scientists say the Moon's dark half is volcanoes.

The width of the 'dome' bottom ranges from 800 meters to 5 kilometers. Height up to 6 kilometers. According to scientists, this 'terrain' (temporarily using the Earth's equivalent term) created when lava blocks from the Moon's heart through cracks erupted onto the surface and gradually froze.

Research results show that lava on the Moon contains a large amount of radioactive thorium metal.

The spectral analysis of stratigraphic layers of extinct volcanoes proved that they contained a large amount of silicon. This is unusual for the Moon because in other layers of rock there is no process that leads to silence of silicon.

Recently, a group of other scientists have also built the most detailed picture so far behind the Moon and used the photos that the LRO Exploration Station has taken.

The authors have published what they found in the journal Nature Geoscience and summarized on Space.com.