Cool Moon Facts by Whip

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Fact #041 Geology

The Moon has no global magnetic field today, but its oldest rocks are magnetised, so it used to have one.

Apollo samples carry a frozen-in record of a field comparable to Earth's, which means the Moon once had a churning molten core generating a dynamo. That died out over a billion years ago. The leftover patches of magnetised crust are strong enough to deflect solar wind in places.

Source: Apollo sample paleomagnetism, NASA (opens in a new tab) · checked Aug 2026

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